RFC: Statistics in Subsurface

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On May 17, 2020, at 3:16 PM, Berthold Stoeger <bstoeger at mail.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Small update: I started implementing such a multi-constraint filter and so far 
> I like the idea, as it allows for more filter criteria (e.g. depth, day-of-
> week, month-of-year, phase-of-the-moon, etc) without cluttering the interface. 
> This appears to be useful independently of the statistics topic.

Yes, I really think of this as two related, yet independent developments.

> So far, the string-based searches (tags, people, etc) seem to work fine. 
> Others, such as temperature (units!), ratings, etc. still need some work.
> 
> That said, I find the whole model/view business very tiresome. We have a 
> strongly typed language on both sides (core and UI) and yet have to squeeze 
> everything through Qt's weakly typed and ill-thought-out QVariant. Moreover, 
> the whole Qt model/view API is not one of the parts that turned out nicely. 
> Lots of error-prone boilerplate for no gain.

As always, I'm here if you want help with the UI side of things. I'm not a great 
developer of UIs (we cam all agree on that), but I'm getting somewhat better.
And especially since I was hoping to do this in QML on both platforms I'm afraid 
there will be additional 'warts' to overcome :-/

THANKS!

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