Multiple tanks from divelogs

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:46:52PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
> On 28 January, 2015 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > If I knew of a solution that works, I'd have implemented it a long time
> > ago.
> > 
> > I guess we could change our logic like this:
> > 
> > - get rid of the "show unused cylinders" thing
> > - on download from dive computer, only include those cylinders that are in
> >   use on the dive, based on whatever information we get from the dive
> >   computer
> > - on all other methods of input, don't mess with the cylinders that are
> >   being given
> > 
> > That means that for all existing dives downloaded from one of the
> > "offending" dive computers you are out of luck and need to manually remove
> > them if you don't want to see them. But for other scenarios we are doing
> > something "somewhat intuitive and consistent".
> > 
> > Thought? Counter suggestions?
> > 
> 
> I just clean my cylinder list after I've downloaded from any "leftovers"
> that i didn't use and that where just hanging around in there.
> 
> 
> So, in my world we could drop the "show unused cylinders" and always
> show all of them, and treat them as "used". If a user doesn't like them,
> just remove them!

We did that and got LOTS of complaints from people who got 5 or 6
cylinders from their dive computer.

It's too late to change this for 4.4 (I really want to release 4.4 next
week and there's way too much risk that messing with this could break
things right now). But I think we should just change it as I indicated
above after 4.4 is out.

/D