map-widget: new suggestions for editing markers

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Nov 2 08:26:19 PDT 2017


> On Nov 2, 2017, at 8:09 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Martin Měřinský <mermar at centrum.cz> wrote:
>> 
>> After selecting dive(s) without location, zomm out to level 0 (whole
>> world).
> 
> No.
> 
> We used to do that, and it's a nightmare. If you walk through dives in
> a trip where some dives have locations and others don't (which is very
> common even if you give all your dives locations - think "I'm now
> downloading new dives"), it's absolutely horrible.
> 
> It's also horrible if you want to manually give a location. You were
> just at your previous dive, now you go to the dive you want to give a
> location to (possibly the same location, and very likely near-by), and
> now the damn map zooms out to middle of nowhere.
> 
> DO NOT MOVE/CHANGE THE MAP WHEN A DIVE HAS NO LOCATION.
> 
> It's really really bad.


I agree with that. If you really feel like you have to do something, put an
opaque screen above it so it looks disabled or something. But don't zoom / move.

/D


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