dive site management enhancements (request)

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Mon Jun 22 12:50:56 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Linus Torvalds <
torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 05:42:33PM +0800, Miika Turkia wrote:
> >>
> >> - Allow editing of multiple sites on divesite management. E.g. when
> >> selecting a few days worth of dives, it would be nice to be able to
> >> add names to these all with one go, seeing all the selected dives on
> >> divelist and switching between them. (I used the automated mode when
> >> recording GPS coordinates.)
> >
> > Not sure how the UI for that would work. Can you explain a bit more?
>
> So I don't know what Anton had in mind, but from my experience last
> week, what *I* would like to see is:
>
>  - when downloading the GPS data, do something very similar to the
> "dive download" window, where you list the dives that have matched up
> to new GPS information *before* applying the state.
>
>  - but in addition to the dive list (and the checkboxes so that you
> can select to use downloaded GPS locations for only a subset of the
> dives), you'd have a text-entry box to name the new sites.
>
> IOW, I think the dive computer download dialogue really works as a
> good example of what the GPS download should do. It's a very similar
> multi-phase operation: first we download the information (without
> actually applying it), then we select the dives we want to add info
> for, and then we apply it. The only difference would be that we'd have
> that text-field for naming the dive sites as we go along.
>
> (Which wouldn't be wrong for the divecomputer download dialogue
> either, for that matter - maybe there is room for some sharing of
> setup code).
>

since I'm implementing some of the stuff right now, taking this into
consideration.


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