world peace and the perfect location editing widget

[Rick Walsh]

On 19 Jul 2015 12:33 am, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> 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

I'm on Fedora 22 and Plasma5.  The autocomplete goes away after hitting
space.

>
> > > 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
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