wishlist - tags

[Dirk Hohndel]

Yes. We're working on it.

This will be in Subsurface 4.0

We won't waste time adding this to the Gtk version (3.1 and earlier)

/D

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 09:10 -0700, Mark Kampe wrote:
> Built-in tags get cumbersome and will be wrong for most people,
> but a free-form text tags field is awkward to edit and display.
> 
> One of the things I liked about the Suunto Dive Manager was that it
> gave me a few user-defined fields that I could use for my own
> purposes.  These fields actually showed up in the edit-dive
> dialogs and printed logs which made it very easy to enter and
> view them.
> 
> as an example, I used them for:
>      subjective warmth
>      training activities carried out (I'm an instructor)
>      a multi-dimensional dive quality rating
> 
> 
> A cool approach would be to:
> 
>     allow users to define typed (e.g. boolean, enumerated, text)
>     tags which would then show up (in a type-appropriate format)
>     in their edit and display dialogs.
> 
>     store them in some reasonably self describing dive fields
>     so that they are harmless in the xml, and clear to anybody
>     reading the xml.
> 
>     either allow the supported tags to be configured (per user),
>     or alternatively auto-configure the U/I based on the tags
>     found in the xml (as attributes of the log).  I can see
>     arguments for either approach.
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