Hack Night for Subsurface happened today.

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Fri Nov 1 06:26:58 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Linus Torvalds <
torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'll digitalize everything that she did and add a bit of explanation for
> > everything tomorrow, but the interface will ( if accepted, but since
> she's
> > an UX designer and we are mere programmers, I think we should follow her
> > advice ) change a bit.
>
> Just as long as we are careful. UX designers that aren't power-users
> may think they have an idea of what is a good user interface, but if
> they don't actually *use* it, they can easily be completely bogus. The
> whole "edit multiple dives" is an example of actual functionality that
> may not be obvious from a UI standpoint, but that makes for a huge
> difference when actually using the program.
>
> Or look at the different modes for location editing: the map may well
> be a really nice UX way to pinpoint the dive, but if the *use* case is
> that you got GPS coordinates from some other source, the map editing
> may well be a really nice way to screw up location by mistake...
>
>             Linus
>

Agreed.
But since I was overseeing her working, and removing some doubts about the
software we managed to get something good for it,
Nothing that will change subsurface 100% diferent, but small improvements
here and there.
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