support for images per dive

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 15:04 +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 6 January 2014 14:55, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 17:09 +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> >> >
> >> > A solution might be to store an URI per image. Then the file could be in the
> >> > local file system for fast access or on the web (flickr, picasa or some
> >> > other album) and would be available wherever the xml is opened as long as
> >> > there is internet.
> >> >
> >>
> >> i like the URI idea a lot, this will support images from anywhere.
> >> and perhaps this should be our initial goal.
> >
> > That certainly would be much easier as a first step
> >
> > What's the vision how these images would be displayed?
> >
> > A little camera icon (instead of the flag / triangle) and when the user
> > clicks this the picture is shown in an overlay?
> >
> 
> tomaz was against showing them anywhere but the profile, i think.
> his vision is that no overlays and pop-up windows should be shown.

Umm. That would be tiny tiny tiny. Not sure that's worth it.

> as i understood he's now planning to move the statistics in the profile as well.
> not sure if you have discussed that.

No. That has not been discussed so far. And it doesn't sound like the
right direction for us, either... I know that some people hate
additional windows, but shoving everything into the one window doesn't
really work, either.

I haven't seen the design idea behind this so I'm not saying "absolutely
not", but it will take quite some convincing...

> > For this to be useful (at least to me) it would have to have the ability
> > to look at a folder (thinking about local images at this point) or
> > something similar from a web service and then match image times with
> > dive times (and if you can't keep your clocks in sync... too bad, go
> > away).
> >
> >> over IRC last night there was also a discussion about an 'image pool'
> >> of sorts per dive.
> >> the 'image pool' would contain all images and we can maintain them
> >> with a dialog of sorts add/view/delete/use on profile.
> >> now the 'use on profile' idea is to have icons on the profile, that
> >> when perhaps clicked will show the image somewhere.
> >> we can possibly use EXIF info to gather time and date and place these
> >> image icons on the profile.
> >> but if EXIF says this image is before or after the dive, we can still
> >> have it for this dive, but not on the profile...something in these
> >> lins.
> >
> > I don't think I really understand what the image pool does... is this
> > what I tried to describe above with the folder and the time matching?
> >
> > I think before we start implementing any of this we really need to
> > figure out the final vision of what the user experience should be.
> >
> 
> pretty much the pool is like a folder, but it can contain photos from
> different folders (URI).
> i call it a pool because it can contain photos that were made during
> the dive window, or perhaps outside of it (e.g. on boat).
> 
> this one is more of a real diver discussion topic, so not really for
> me, for the time being.

Don't exclude yourself just because you haven't started diving, yet :-)

I see the value of being able to add pictures before and after to the
dive. I want to understand the user interaction here - both when
selecting the pictures and when looking at them later...

/D