[RFC PATCH] Add 'create new trip' option for downloading dives from the dive computer

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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> THEN I'll look into things like this :-)

No problem. This has been brewing from Palau with the annoying Icon HD
NetReady data that I had to clean up manually (old dives by the
original owner - sometimes you really don't want to download
everything), and the Uemis data due to us switching computers around.
So it's not a new issue, and it's absolutely not pressing.

Then when I had the same issue with looking at Daniela's dives along
my own, the only thing that is new was that I found a solution that
seems to work well from a user interface perspective, _and_ was easy
to implement too.

I'd say that the "private trip" is better than the Suunto DM3 dialog
that Paul-Erik described. The private trip ends up being a similar
kind of "preview dialog" for the newly downloaded dives, *but* with
the advantage of being able to see the newly downloaded dives "normal"
dives in subsurface (so you can view new and old dives together,
delete the new dives you don't want, and the "download only new dives"
vs "download *all* dives" parts of the downloading still works
automatically etc). So it seems to be a good model. But not having
ever used the Suunto DM thing, I don't know how the workflow differs
and works in practice.

But it's definitely not an urgent issue, and doesn't matter for the
next release.

                Linus