dive site management enhancements (request)

[Anton Lundin]

On 22 June, 2015 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:47:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds 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:
> > 

How did I get involved into this?

> >  - 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.
> 
> Oh wow, that is a cool idea. I really like that.
> If that kernel hacking thing doesn't work out for you, maybe you could go
> into user interface design. On second thought, never mind.
> (I need to see if I can still build Subsurface 1.0...)
> 

http://www.acc.umu.se/~glance/ssrf-1.0.jpg

Doesn't it look lovely? =)

> > 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).
> 
> Yeah - I'm thinking there could be some really cool similarity /
> consistency between all these dialogs.
> 
> Think about it this way. Whether you download from your second dive
> computer or download GPS data, you are doing something quite similar: you
> are adding data to the existing dive list.
> 
> This could turn into a really cool user experience if done right.
> If only I had any talent and/or skill for this stuff... that would be neat
> to work on.
> 
> Great idea from our Finns...
> 

I really like it.

Way better than typing git diff to see what actually happened after this
operation.


//Anton


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