map-widget: new suggestions for editing markers

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Nov 2 09:12:51 PDT 2017


> On Nov 2, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Martin Měřinský <mermar at centrum.cz> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 08:26 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>> On Nov 2, 2017, at 8:09 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundati
>>> on.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.
> 
> Could be confusing a little bit, because divesite is probably not on
> the map shown at the moment. And zoom out for sites without location
> wasn't be bad for me. But I have no strong feelings about that.

It is super annoying if you have a sequence of dives with and without
GPS info and you scroll through them to find a certain thing.

> Now selected divesite has brighter flag. Maybe the difference between
> selected and not selected divesite should be a little more visible. 

That is certainly a valid point - I think the flags are still too similar

/D



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