SubSurface Enhancement Proposal

[Dazed_75]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

>
> Em 23/08/2013 19:16, "Dazed_75" <lthielster at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
> >
> > I've waited 9 days in the hopes of seeing further comments.  I must say
> I am truly amazed not to see more interest.
>
> Don't take as that, really. We got just lack of manpower.  I for instance
> would like to see those features implemented, but who will? I might, in the
> future, as soon as I finish the features that I'm trying to add now... But
> I can't add now anything before finishing the port to qt because if I try
> to do that, I'll never finish the software.
>
I was not looking for anything right away other than comments whether
people liked the ideas or not.  If you go back and read it again, I was
saying that IF people were interested I would then put in a ticket and
begin working on it myself.

>  > I and as many as 2-300 others have had these features in MSDOS and
> Windows or Linux and DOSBOX for 25 years.  I don't like losing them but
> since I have no interest in forking and all that goes with that, I guess
> they are not going to happen.
>
> Why don't you help me on the port and as soon as we finish it, we discuss
> about a next version with your ideas? I plan to do a "plugin" module to
> subsurface, and this ideas of you could be easily integrated as plug-ins.
>
I did not volunteer to work on the Qt port because I know little more than
how to spell Qt.  I looked at some Qt tools and documents and could see it
would be a big learning curve.  NTL, that has some appeal. However, I saw
little in the way of positive response so maybe there are not enough people
who want it to warrant working on my proposed ideas.

> >I will continue to use SubSurface to get the import from many DCs support
> etc. and perhaps I can still find a way to contribute.
>
> Help the port, I will really appreciate it. =)
>
> > Is there anywhere I can look back and see the reasons you have decided
> to migrate to Qt?
>
> Lack of support from experienced gtk developers, lack of native look on
> osx and win32, non stable API of gtk3, lack of manpower,  bugs that were
> hard to workaround name a few. But on gtalk you can see on dirk Hohndel
> time line his call for qt developers.
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Mark Kampe <mark.kampe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I keep dive equipment purchase and service info in a spreadsheet (for
> easy update and reference), buddy info in gmail contacts (making them easy
> to call and email),  certification cards in a PADI smart phone app (with
> electronic verification info), and emergency contact info on a waterproof
> tag on my BC (where the person who recovers my BC or body will have no
> trouble finding it).   I store this information in different places because
> it must be acted on by different tools, and at different times.
> >>
> >> I need a dive log to capture rich structured data from my dive
> computer, annotate it with my personal commentary about the same dives,
> permit me to browse, search and query that database and generate attractive
> and informative report pages I can share with friends, students, and
> officials.
> >>
> >> I can see adding equipment records to the dive log program, because all
> of that equipment was already known to the dive-logs ... but I can get into
> and edit a spreadsheet (or an ASCII text file) much faster than I can start
> up a dive log program and dance with the menus.  But that may only hold
> true for digi-geeks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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