Proposal: mobile menu system

[Stephen Goodall]

I agree that having "About" under "Help" never seemed that logical.......
however a lot of desktop apps do put it there :D

I just checked Chrome, Eclipse, DBeaver and Notepad++

Not very useful input there, sorry!

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, 4:21 pm Dirk Hohndel, <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 11, 2020, at 7:22 PM, Willem Ferguson <
> willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
> >
> > The Mobile menu system is getting quite complex and if the developer
> options are enabled all the options often do not fit onto a smartphone
> screen. Would it make sense to reorganise the main menu?
>
> Not sure what you mean by "all options". All menu options? Yes, that
> happens. But the drawer scrolls nicely.
>
> > An obvious improvement is to get all the dive list operations together.
> These are: 1) Copy dive list to clipboard; 2) Map; 3) Dive summary. [(4)
> Export???]. Ideally these options should be available from the dive list
> itself. A possibility is the right-hand part of the banner at the top of
> the dive list. That would be the most intuitive way. The not-so-perfect
> alternative is to insert them as items on a new main menu item, "Dive list
> tools"
>
> We don't have (1) above.
> (2) I find the Map rather useless and would like to remove it as a menu
> option
> (3) yeah, not sure this should be a top level item - but it doesn't
> reasonably fit under any of the existing items
> (4) I find export fairly useless on a mobile device. This was something
> that a former developer who has stopped participating in this project
> absolutely wanted - but to me that is a weird feature on a mobile device
> (especially since we intentionally do not support the rather symmetrical
> "import" feature)
>
> We will add a context drawer (extends from the right) in the near future -
> that will include options such as undo or trip management options on the
> dive list - but this requires a fundamental rewrite of the models used
> (Berthold and I have been working on this for several months). But I don't
> think that's useful for any of these menu entries. But I'm happy to
> contemplate this some more
>
> > Maybe the Export option could be part of the Dive Management menu? Would
> Copy dive list to clipboard fit better here?
>
> Again, at least my version of Subsurface-mobile doesn't support "copy dive
> list to clipboard".
>
> > The About screen contains very little useful information. The software
> version has been removed and I cannot find it in the App log. Would it make
> sense to move the About screen to the Help menu?
>
> That was a bug in the previous beta, the latest beta fixes this (also
> caused by code introduced by aforementioned developer).
> I'm ok with moving "About" under "Help". Not the most logical spot for it,
> but on the flip side, it's not something people are likely to need very
> often.
> We will need to update the manual with all that, of course. But then, the
> About screen has become even less important with the in-app support button.
>
> This is all really good input and good food for thought.
>
> Thanks
>
> /D
>
>
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