Towards 4.3 :)

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Fri Aug 8 11:59:32 PDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Davide DB <dbdavide at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I like it too. It seems simple and effective but, as Dirk wrote, it could be
> challenging picking up the right dive to copy from. Tech dives could be very
> different among them. For recreational use I guess it's perfect.

Well, if we just pick the currently selected one like Tomaz said (it
would be the one shown behind the download dialog, so you can kind of
see it in the background), a tech diver with lots of different complex
cases can easily just pick his last "similar" dive, and off he goes.

And for the most common recreational use, you'd probably just fire up
subsurface in order to download new dives, and the last dive is the
one we select by default at startup, so it just DTRT by default.

Now, if somebody randomly browses old dives before deciding to
download new ones, *that* could be confusing, but if the download
checkmark text clearly states something like "take equipment data from
currently shown dive in newly downloaded dives" it really sounds
fairly straightforward.

            Linus


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