<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 July 2017 at 07:25, Willem Ferguson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za" target="_blank">willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 22/07/2017 21:23, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
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</span><blockquote type="cite" style="color:#000000"><span class="">I started testing
the new binary and it seems not broken, so that's good
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Most everything in the changes I really like. The new menu layout
makes a
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lot more sense. I miss the easily visible / accessible switch for
the
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location service (but that may be just me... this seems like
something I
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really want to be able to see at a glance when checking my phone
while on
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the dive boat).
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What I wonder about is the switch to "switches" (no pun intended).
I know
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that they are the Android standard, but I think they provide zero
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incremental value compared to having check boxes - and the round
bigger
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switches and the smaller more squared check boxes (for example on
the
<br>
settings page) really do look odd together. I don't think this is
quite
<br>
right, yet.
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Activating the GPS service should not be under settings. This is
not a service setting: it is an action just as "Manual sync with
cloud" is an action. At the very least it should be in the GPS
submenu and not in Settings. Then again, there is under "Dive
Management, the option "Enable auto cloud sync". Is this a setting?
It turns out these distinctions are actually not black and white.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No they are not and we should define where the ambiguous parts should belong.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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I have two proposals for "Run location service" activation. 1) Move
the "Run location service" switch to the GPS submenu and indicate
whether it is active or inactive by an appropriate icon on the left,
indicating on or off. I could help with icons but Joakim has been so
efficient with his icons I would prefer him do this. 2) For the
location service to be useful at all, the user must be able to
easily see whether it is active or not, even on the main menu. This
is why the previous arrangement with a checkbox on the main menu was
very useful. Is it possible to have an icon in the Android icon bar
at the top of the screen?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1) Moving it to the GPS menu is no problem, the icon on the other hand... </div><div>If we add a icon to show that the GPS is off, that would be the default view for most people, see picture.</div><div><br></div><div>what we really should do is to interact with the OS backend and display the GPS icon in the top bar just like Google Maps does when active.</div><div><br></div><div>Or we could apply an color the the GPS icon in the drawer when the service is active, that way it will be REALLY clear when it is active or not.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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Kind regards,
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willem
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jocke</div></div>
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