test binaries for Beta 5" photos

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Aug 6 10:25:58 PDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 07:22:17PM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> On 06/08/2014 18:50, Salvador Cuñat wrote:
> >Good Afternoon.
> >
> >
> >There is a weird thing on profile if the user has photos added in his .xml
> >file but he is not using his usual box (no photos in this), some white
> >squares are displayed where the photographs should be shown.  Relative to
> >this situation, may be a recomendation should be made in user manual: if
> >the user shares a divelog (e.g. vía Dropbox) to access it from different
> >machines, would be interesting to store the photos there and refer
> >subsurface to this storage, so images could be seen on every machine he
> >uses.
> >
> I suggest, leave that as is. The white dots convey information, meaning
> "Photo attached which cannot be accessed now". This is useful knowledge,
> meaning either "now go and attach the external drive with your photos" or
> "you have inadvertently erased the directory with your photos". If the white
> dots do not appear, one does not know whether the links between photos and
> dive were inadvertently lost or not. If the white dots are troublesome and
> in one's way, just switch off the display of photos using the button in the
> profile toolbar.

Yeah, I think that's the correct answer

/D


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