dive site management enhancements (request)

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:54:05AM +0200, Davide DB wrote:
> 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.

Conceptually you are right, but is this how the diver thinks about it?

So you downloaded your dives from your dive computer. Now you are
downloading the GPS fixes. Wouldn't you expect a similar UI?

Just asking - you are much better with UIs than I am, clearly :-)

> 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.

Easy to add. Please file an enhancement request bug so I don't forget

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