Subsurface Info tab: star widgets and water type/density

[Willem Ferguson]

Two issues:

1) With respect to the proposed star widgets (for current, surface 
waves, surge and chill) that I had for the Information tab, there was 
discussion on what to do with those (see image below). Currently only 
the star widget for visibility is shown. During the previous discussions 
on this mail list there was broad support for these. However a few 
developers thought this was not necessary. Dirk though that perhaps the 
star widget for current should be kept.

My proposal is to keep the star widgets for current and for visibility, 
and to make the other three user selectable through the preferences 
settings with the default state being those three not being shown.

2) The water type/Density widget. Currently it is not editable because 
of serious misgivings about the utility of this being editable. If one 
considers a dive log as a type of dive diary then there is a need to 
accurately reflect the dive. And I reckon that almost all divers that 
dive both fresh and sea water at some stage forget to set their dive 
computers to the correct water type. In addition, for manually-entered 
dives there is no possibility to define the water density at all. It is 
possible to hand-edit the water density in the xml dive log and this is 
what I have done on those few occasions. In the interest of having a 
true reflection of a dive in the dive log I honestly think that there is 
a need to be able to edit the water density value. Therefore I propose 
that, at least under some circumstances, the water type/Density value is 
made editable. The possibility is that here as well, one could make this 
user selectable with the default state being that the editability is 
turned off.

Comments, please?

Kind regards,

willem



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