On 22 June, 2015 - Dirk Hohndel wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:47:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 05:42:33PM +0800, Miika Turkia wrote: > > >> > > >> - Allow editing of multiple sites on divesite management. E.g. when > > >> selecting a few days worth of dives, it would be nice to be able to > > >> add names to these all with one go, seeing all the selected dives on > > >> divelist and switching between them. (I used the automated mode when > > >> recording GPS coordinates.) > > > > > > Not sure how the UI for that would work. Can you explain a bit more? > > > > So I don't know what Anton had in mind, but from my experience last > > week, what *I* would like to see is: > >
How did I get involved into this? > > - when downloading the GPS data, do something very similar to the > > "dive download" window, where you list the dives that have matched up > > to new GPS information *before* applying the state. > > > > - but in addition to the dive list (and the checkboxes so that you > > can select to use downloaded GPS locations for only a subset of the > > dives), you'd have a text-entry box to name the new sites. > > Oh wow, that is a cool idea. I really like that. > If that kernel hacking thing doesn't work out for you, maybe you could go > into user interface design. On second thought, never mind. > (I need to see if I can still build Subsurface 1.0...) > http://www.acc.umu.se/~glance/ssrf-1.0.jpg Doesn't it look lovely? =) > > IOW, I think the dive computer download dialogue really works as a > > good example of what the GPS download should do. It's a very similar > > multi-phase operation: first we download the information (without > > actually applying it), then we select the dives we want to add info > > for, and then we apply it. The only difference would be that we'd have > > that text-field for naming the dive sites as we go along. > > > > (Which wouldn't be wrong for the divecomputer download dialogue > > either, for that matter - maybe there is room for some sharing of > > setup code). > > Yeah - I'm thinking there could be some really cool similarity / > consistency between all these dialogs. > > Think about it this way. Whether you download from your second dive > computer or download GPS data, you are doing something quite similar: you > are adding data to the existing dive list. > > This could turn into a really cool user experience if done right. > If only I had any talent and/or skill for this stuff... that would be neat > to work on. > > Great idea from our Finns... > I really like it. Way better than typing git diff to see what actually happened after this operation. //Anton -- Anton Lundin +46702-161604 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface