dive site management enhancements (request)

[Davide DB]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> 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:
>>
>>  - 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...)

This is a nice addition but I hope it doesn't change what we already envised :)
IMHO the dialog should not list the dives but dive sites because gps
are added to dive sites not dives.

I agree with Miika that having a gps fix symbol near the dive would be nice.
Even on a column in the dive sites list.