to 4.9 or not to 4.9

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On May 5, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> With all that said, what's the right path to get there?
>>> What should be in, what should wait for the next release?
>> 
>> That's a tough one.
>> 
>> The one thing for which I don't have a solution yet is the multiple-dive-edit 
>> problem. No information when multiple dives are edited is a recipe for 
>> disaster. I see it coming: User clicks on a dive site, multiple dives are 
>> selected. User edits current dive, but all are changed. The good thing is that 
>> only those fields are changed that have the same value as the edited dive, so 
>> it shouldn't end up in a total catastrophe.
> 
> That's definitely something that needs some form of warning. I'll ponder on that.

Here's my idea. When you edit more than one dive, we change the background of the
tabs to a different color and place the text "editing multiple dives" in the center of it it.
My suggestion would be to change the title of the Notes field to

Notes           <RED>Editing multiple dives</RED>

and change the background color of the tabWidget (not sure how well that part will work,
but at least the text change should be easy to do and it might be enough by itself).
No dialog, nothing. If that's not what you wanted to do, undo.

>> Apart from that, yes undoizing the equipment tab would be nice. There's also 
>> more subtle things: deleting a dive-computer cannot be undone at the moment. 
>> But currently I'd rather fix the obvious problems with the dive-site selection. 
>> I myself am rather busy with live at the moment. Perhaps we can live with a 
>> double tracked system for one release?
> 
> Sure - it's a bit awkward, but hey, we've had much worse :-)

I'm ok with this because I REALLY want to get a 4.9 out. Like REALLY.

>>> How can more people help finish the missing pieces?
>> 
>> Using master and reporting issues would be very helpful. I'm sure there are a 
>> lot of undetected problems. But be prepared for a rough time.
> 
> I think many people here are using master. It's just that not a lot of us dive all the
> time so our usage is in bursts. I'll be diving the very last days of June and the first
> days of July. So at that point Subsurface and Subsurface-mobile will get quite a bit
> of real life testing, multiple dive computers, etc. But in the meantime I always find it
> hard to really "simulate" a lot of use. I tend to fall into the same patterns which oddly
> don't seem to match what I then end up doing on dive trips.
> 
> We do have fairly current binaries for the major platforms and I'm always happy to
> make more available when people ask.

I have seen no follow up on this. Is anyone testing? Reporting bugs on the undo system?


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