On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:27:16AM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen >> <subsurf...@henrik.synth.no> wrote: >> > >> > The autocompleted "Blue Corner - Create dive site with this name" is not >> > useful IMHO. How often would you create a new site with the exact same >> > name >> > as one that is already existing? I think this would only create confusion. >> >> I agree with you but apparently this feature is considered VERY USEFUL >> by others. >> >> I think it's not really useful because either: >> >> 1. it's a common AND simple name like Blue Corner so why bother saving >> the trouble of retyping "Blue Corner"; >> 2. it's a long and difficult to type name and so it's NOT common and >> probably won't be used twice. >> >> IMHO, the autocomplete should always autocomplete to help select an >> already existing dive site, whenever this already existing dive site >> has GPS coordinates or not. If the user doesn't use autocomplete, a >> new dive site would be created. > > And that was exactly what I had proposed. So I agree. > >> And as Tomaz just mentioned: >> >> > Well, Take a look about linus rant from yesterday, in the other location >> > e-mail. >> > He stated that "There are many dive sites with same names, for instance >> > "Turtle Reel" or "Blue Hole" so he wanted to >> > have a way to autocomplete the name without copying the dive site >> > coordinates. >> >> The examples that Linus presented that actually repeat are common, >> small and simple. (case 1 above). >> >> That long dive site name Linus mentioned from Brazil won't ever be >> used anywhere else in the world (case 2 above). >> >> Really, autocomplete to just get the same (small and simple) name for >> a new site is silly and confusing. Autocomplete should be restricted >> to selecting an already existing dive site (which might already have >> GPS coordinates or not). > > I completely agree. If the user wants to create a new site, just type it > in. If they want to use an existing site, pick it from the auto > completion. Easy, consistent, doesn't waste screen real estate.
Linus, are you ready to acknowledge that it's just not worth the trouble to use autocomplete to save a few keystrokes when getting the same name for a different dive site? Rodrigo Severo _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface