Subsurface 4.6

[Tomaz Canabrava]

I already started cleaning the preferences, should be fixed this week.

Em 30 de jul de 2016 16:27, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> escreveu:

> Hi
>
> So the discussion a little while ago seemed to focus on two points:
>
> a) continue the desktop app in maintenance mode
> b) get the mobile apps to a reasonable state (and release the iOS version,
> finally)
>
> This email is about a), I'll send a separate one about Subsurface-mobile.
>
>
> We have a ton of small fixes and improvements in master. And it seems
> silly to try to backport them all to the 4.5-branch. So I'm thinking it
> would make more sense to clean up master and do a 4.6 release instead.
>
> Linus and I have been using master on our last trip and I didn't really
> find a lot of things that are outright broken. One big thing that is
> currently not working as designed is the preferences. Tomaz promised me
> yesterday that he'd be taking a look at finishing the transformation
> there.
>
> But what else is missing to get master ready for a release?
>
> Clearly I need to document the two new features that I implemented and
> never talked much about (Linus may have given me an earful about that).
>
> (1) Subsurface master for a while now has supported multi user mode.
>
> Admittedly in a slightly limited fashion, but for me it has worked really
> well for testing.
>
> ./subsurface --user=Joe
> ./subsurface --user=Jane
>
> This uses two different sets of preferences. So units can be different,
> default file can be different (but careful, the default file is still
> based on the system username under which you run the app, so that's the
> same -- but come to think of it, that's something I really should change,
> too), cloud credentials can be different. It's not perfect, but I think
> it's a start.
>
> Comments, patches welcome.
>
> (2) Subsurface master now supports longer timeouts for cloud storage.
>
> When in Palau, 5 seconds was usually just a little too short for a
> successful connection to the cloud storage server.
>
> ./subsurface --cloud-timeout=NN
>
> allows you to tell Subsurface how many seconds to wait for a response.
> Additionally, once it times out once, it no longer tries every single time
> but instead just switches into local cache only mode.
>
>
> With this out of the way, here's my TODO list for 4.6, and I hope that
> others will add to it with things that you are aware need fixing before we
> release 4.6:
>
> - Preferences handling: right now this is rather broken; some preferences
>   aren't saved correctly at all. The "Apply" vs. "Save" in the preferences
>   dialog doesn't work as expected, etc.
>
> - Offline mode: as explained above, when the cloud server times out we now
>   switch Subsurface into offline mode. I think we should allow the user to
>   try to take things online again, manually, without restarting Subsurface.
>   I'm planning to work on this today after sending this email.
>
> - Mutiuser mode: change the name of the local default file if --user=NAME
>   is given to NAME.ssrf
>
> - The odd error messages when saving to cloud storage that have been
>   discussed on the mailing list in the last few days. That needs to be
>   traced so we know what's going wrong. Since some people reported that it
>   sometimes actually saves things correctly, my guess is that the error
>   handling is broken in weird ways?
>
> - Image handling: Robert, I seem to remember that this was currently not
>   in a sane state. Can you let me know where we are with this?
>
> - Dive planner: what's the status on that? Are we good?
>
> - Handling rebreathers: same question. Linus had some comments on that, I
>   don't dive rebreathers so I simply don't know what the status is.
>
> - Qt 5.7: we need to get rid of the dependency on WebKit. Yes, I guess we
>   could manually compile it and bundle it for our binary packages, but
>   people who compile from source will run into all kinds of pain. I think
>   this will also cause pain for Marble (but haven't looked into this at
>   all, yet).
>
>
> That's the list that I'm aware of, feel free to add if there are things
> that I'm missing. Right now I have no time line in mind since it's very
> hard for me to guess how much time I'll have to work on this in the next
> month or two, but also because some of this depends on others (notably,
> Tomaz and Robert), who also had issues finding time for Subsurface,
> lately.
>
> Thanks
>
> /D
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