Subsurface-mobile for Android -845

[Rick Walsh]

On 14 Feb 2016 16:06, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:52:44PM +1100, Rick Walsh wrote:
> > > So I tried to implement something that I find reasonable and
intuitive.
> > >
> > > - there's still the save button
> > > - the action button is cancel and there is NO CONFIRMATION - you hit
that
> > >   button, you get what you asked for
> > > - the back button asks the user if they really wanted to discard the
> > >   changes, and if they don't confirm within 3 seconds it simply hides
the
> > >   confirmation dialog and pretends nothing happens
> > >
> > > Please play with it, the description sounds a lot more awkward that it
> > > felt to me to use...
> > >
> >
> > The logic is good, and the description makes sense.  The reasons I'd
rather
> > the action button be 'save' are:
> > (1) I'm lazy and if all I want to do is enter/alter a couple of details
> > (e.g. dive site and buddy), then I don't want to have to scroll down to
the
> > bottom of the page to find the save button
> > (2) we effectively have two quick-access buttons: the action button and
the
> > back button.  Having both do the same thing (with or without
confirmation)
> > is a bit of a waste.  We have two actions that should be accessed
rapidly:
> > save and discard.  The back button can be used to discard changes, so it
> > makes sense to me that the action button would be save.
> > (3) let's trust the user knows what she's doing - more often than not,
when
> > the user wants to leave the page, she wants to save changes.  We should
> > make that as easy as possible.
>
> I can see your point. So let me rip out the work that I did and implement
> that instead.
>
Sorry, I didn't mean to create more rework. I might have forgotten to
mention that it's looking great too.

Rick
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