request for review and testing: default file name

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen subsurface at henrik.synth.no
Mon Sep 10 13:11:14 PDT 2012


Den 10.09.12 21:48, skrev Dirk Hohndel:
> On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Jef Driesen wrote:
>
>> I'm in favor of a documents based approach. There are several valid reasons for using multiple files. Multiple divers sharing the same desktop (e.g. my wife dives too), a technical diver may track technical dives and recreational dives separately, an instructor tracking training dives separately from the fun dives, etc.
>>
>> How about remember the last X files, instead of just the last file? It's common practice in lots of applications (e.g. gedit, evince, libreoffice, etc) so it should be familiar to users. And it allows easy switching between the most used files.
> But different users may have different settings / preferences. Different dive computers. They want to see different columns. In your recreational dives you don't care about OTUs but in your tec dives you do. Etc.
>
> So just using multiple filenames works for gedit or libreoffice, but in subsurface we have additional context that would also have to switch, I think.

Please give your wives separate accounts, people! :)

I'm very much for the one standard dives.xml, but the possibility to 
close and open a new one is good.  I really think Dirk has covered the 
most common use cases.

Henrik



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