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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