[RFC PATCH] Tweak cylinder equipment tooltips

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Jan 16 03:32:47 PST 2017


On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 04:07:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> This has an RFC because this is all obviously a subjective. Very few 
> people care about the compressibility factor, and realistically the main 
> reason to show it is to explain when people get confused.

I think this is very useful. I played around with it (noticing that our
tab order in the equipment widget is odd), but found it quite useful.

Thanks!

> Also, arguably, with this patch we really could just revert that now less 
> useful commit adaeb506b7a1. Again, it's a matter of taste. The tooltip 
> shows the same real gas volume information, and now also works for metric 
> cylinders. But the tooltip obviously needs that mouse-over. 
> 
> So which is better? Both? A matter of taste, I suspect.

I will actually revert adaeb506b7a1 since the information in the tooltip
seems so much more useful - and less confusing (and cluttering the UI less
as well).

/D


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