Towards 4.3 :)

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 09:57:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Davide DB <dbdavide at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I do only tech dives and despite of default cylinder I set, I have to insert
> > manually two deco bottles (at least) each dive.
> > Having a bottles set instead of a single cylinder would be really useful.
> 
> I'm wondering if there might not be a simpler model than having a
> configuration thing for "default cylinders" etc.
> 
> For example, if the issue really is "I hate having to fill in all this
> information every time", why not have a simple "copy dive equipment
> from last dive" kind of model?
> 
> IOW, there wouldn't be any special default set, but perhaps just when
> downloading dives there would be a simple checkmark for "copy
> equipment".
> 
> For example, even if you *don't* end up having special default
> equipment, when you're on a dive trip with rental gear, presumably
> you're going to have the *same* rental gear the whole time. So once
> you've filled it out after the first day, that "copy equipment" model
> would work fine too.
> 
> That wouldn't be just cylinders, btw. It would be the suit and weights too.
> 
> Hmm?

I like it - especially as it is a) intuitive and b) should allow for a
reasonably simple UI.

The challenge is simply to pick which dive to clone the data from... but
that seems doable.

/D