Subsurface Info tab: star widgets and water type/density

[Dean Murray]

Hi Willem,

If it's not on the main (notes) tab then I think it doesn't matter to have
more fields visible. As for editing water density I agree it makes sense.
The computer is not providing gospel. Same can be said of the time info
coming from the computer. It is critical for deco status but you may want
to override because for example you forgot to adjust daylight saving time
like me.

Depending on why some object to editing it. I remind of a suggestion that I
made earlier was to make a way (colour code or similar) to know if a value
came from the computer or was manual entry or even if it is simply a
calculated value. This I think is useful to know to for all displayed data.

Dean




On Tue, 12 Nov. 2019, 6:31 pm Willem Ferguson, <
willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:

> 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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