RFC: Dive site UI

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Apr 18 05:43:48 PDT 2016


> On Apr 18, 2016, at 5:39 AM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <henrik at synth.no> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>> wrote:
> 
> So for the way that /I/ use Subsurface, this is a massive step back.
> 
> And while I'm happy to go out of my way and spend hundreds of hours so that others can do things the way they want, I draw the line at spending time on no longer being able to use Subsurface the way I want to.
> 
> At the same time, it stops me (and several people I know) from using Subsurface sanely.  But I believe we need to separate the dive and dive site logic to get rid of the confusion we see /every/ time someone tries to change the dive site handling.

So my choices are "make a change that I will hate" or "keep something that some other people hate"...

Interesting dilemma.

> The second widget could be made pretty seemless (with e.g. keyboard navigation, or even something inline), but I think we are stuck if we stick with the current UI.

Yeah, we did six versions of the dive site UI. We almost lost Tomaz as a contributor over this.

I think I know which way this one will go.

/D
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