RFC: Dive site UI

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Apr 18 07:28:30 PDT 2016


> On Apr 18, 2016, at 7:03 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org> wrote:
> Now there is one widget both in QWidgets and even in Qt Quick Controls which 
> could help Henrik without making Dirk's life any harder: It's a Combobox which 
> is set to "editable".
> 
> Dirk could just use it like a simple edit box, whereas Henrik could either 
> choose an existing site using the drop-down or use the autocompletion feature 
> to narrow down the list, or enter a new dive site name right in the box.
> 
> I don't think users would think that if they first choose an existing site and 
> then change the name, they'd actually change the name of the existing site in 
> the database, or do you think they would?
> 
> Of course then it would still make sense to have an option to actually edit 
> existing dive sites, but that could be done elsewhere, since it's not a common 
> task (or is it?).
> 
> If you have already considered and discarded that option before, I'm sorry for 
> the noise. If not, this may be something to think about?

I think this is very insightful, as you pretty much described the current UI of
Subsurface 4.5

/D


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