Feature request: Gas usage in Stats tab

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Nov 17 06:57:36 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 08:51 +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> Is there any way to show the gas usage separately for each cylinder 
> during a dive? (i.e. if there are >1 cylinders). There are two reasons 
> for this request:
> 1) This information is extremely pertinent after a multi-cylinder dive.
> 2) This single step will bring the manual dive entry mode extremely 
> close to a dive planning mode. If one starts up subsurface without 
> loading a logbook and then manually enters dives with dates and times 
> that are appropriately spaced, one can do quite a bit of dive planning. 
> The graphical interface is largely the killer that makes this very 
> attractive. Gas usage is one of the key pieces of information gleaned 
> from planning, therefore the request for per-cylinder gas usage.
> I am not implying this should be for V4.0

Arguing for anything by saying "this is almost like adding planning
back" is not going to get me all excited :-)

On the flip side, per cylinder gas usage should be reasonably easy to
do. It's much more a question of visualizing it. So how/where do you
envision that we show the output?

/D



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