world peace and the perfect location editing widget

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:45:10AM +1000, Rick Walsh wrote:
> 
> As all my dives already have locations, I tested by copying my file,
> deleting my 15 most recent dives, then re-downloading them from my dive
> A couple of suggestions relating to the drop-down list:
> (1) get rid of the space between the ~ and the distance.  I'm guessing a
> trivial fix.  E.g. ~365km away rather than ~ 365km away

Trivial indeed

> (2) also provide the number of dives at the existing site to make it easy
> to tell the difference between the usual location (e.g. primary mooring)
> and the alternate location.  Or in my case, the dive site I'm using for all
> my other dives here, and the 'ghost' dive site that no longer has any dives
> assigned to it, but I haven't been able to delete from my log.  Hopefully
> not too hard to implement.  E.g. ~365km away, 14 previous dives

A little harder, but I'm more concerned about space - here's already a ton
of information there and depending on your window size things will get
very crowded / overlapping - is more infomration always better? I'm not
sure.

> > The patch worked for me too.  Thanks Tomaz.
> > There is an annoying thing i didn't realize yesterday (or may be it
> > wasn't there):
> > While typing, and a word is completed, the drop down list closes and
> > your typing is stucked for a moment. When a new word beggins the list
> > opens again and so on.
> >
> 
> I noticed this too, but only after reading Salvador's email.  Until reading
> his email I hadn't bothered completing words, and just selected the site I
> wanted before I had finished typing the first word.  Hopefully it isn't too
> hard to fix.

Curious. I never experience this. Which OS / desktop environment are you
using? I think Tomaz and I both did most of our testing with ArchLinux and
Plasma5

> > Globally, I think it will be a great functionality once "Manage dive
> > sites" gets working.
> >
> >
> Yes, I'm patiently waiting for this feature too.  I've cleaned up my log
> and am deliberately not using duplicate locations for the same site, but
> it's not possible to delete the ghost sites that are left in my .ssrf file,
> except by opening the file in a text editor.  As well as the ability to:
>  add notes to a site, and reassign its coordinates (feature we had briefly
> with the pop-up dive site editor), I would love the option to:
> (1) delete unused sites
> (2) reassign coordinates with help of Marble (feature we had briefly with
> the pop-up dive site editor)
> (3) add notes to a site (feature we had briefly with the pop-up dive site
> editor)
> (4) merge sites with close locations, regardless of name
> (5) merge sites with close-ish locations and same or similar name (e.g.
> Lighthouse vs Lighthouse (Malapascua)).  I might have a GPS fix for one,
> whereas the other time I just guessed by clicking on the map but was
> actually hundreds of metres off.
> (6) merge sites with same/similar names where one has GPS fix and the other
> doesn't.
> (7) get georeferencing for all sites that don't already have it.
> 
> I think points (1) and (2) are crucial.  The rest are my wishlist.

On it's way. The less we distract Tomaz with other stuff, the quicker
we'll get this :-)

> For merging sites, I think the logic should be:
> - if the sites name are different, let the user select the name they want
> for the merged site
> - if one site has coordinate/notes and the other doesn't, take the data we
> have
> - if both sites have (different) coordinates, let the user choose - ideally
> by showing both in marble and the user click on the desired site
> - if both sites have notes, let the user choose one or the other, or take
> text from both.

I think we'll start with a somewhat simplistic version of this. Getting
this perfect and so that everyone likes it will be hard.

/D