On 8 September 2015 at 19:37, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 06:12:27PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: >> On 8 September 2015 at 17:42, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote: >> > >> >> On Sep 7, 2015, at 11:11 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> BTW i can't get cloud storage to become enabled (Open/Save) in the File >> >> menu. >> > >> > This will become enabled once the email / password has been verified. >> > So enter an email address and password. Get email with the pin. Enter the >> > pin. >> > Now the preferences show "verified" and cloud open/save should be enabled. >> > >> > Can you tell us which of these steps fails? >> > >> >> none apparently - it works; i didn't know i need verification... > > The question is "do we need to change the UI to make this more obvious"? > The goal is for this to be easy for the user. Sure, it's documented in the > manual (well, actually, right now it isn't, but I'm sure it will be, > soon), But we all know that most users only check the user manual in cases > of dire emergency, after complaining on Facebook how much the software > sucks and sending emails to random email addresses with questions lacking > any context... Oops, shouldn't have written that part... where's the > delete key on this keyboard...? >
after checking the preferences it seems fine to me, as is. the users will suggest improvements if they find it non-intuitive. >> now i understand what "spinner" this is about - it's a preloader >> animation and it's visible for me on Windows 7. >> i though the discussion was about a QSpinBox somewhere on the UI. > > Nope, it's about the big spinner that apparently doesn't show up on all > Windows versions... > >> so looking at the QtWaitingSpinner class, it should work as is, unless >> there is something which Qt doesn't handle for Windows 10 or if >> something changed Windows 10 e.g. frameless window rendering. >> >> instead of: >> Qt::Dialog | Qt::FramelessWindowHint >> >> this can be attempted: >> Qt::SplashScreen >> >> but i can't test it as i also don't have Windows 10. > > But it's free! > Never mind, I don't have it either. I barely have a Windows machine, TBH. > > Can you send me a patch? I can do a daily build with it and point the > people who reported the issue to try that. > just tried what i was suggesting and it doesn't work, because Qt::SplashScreen is more about static images (not spinner animations) and requires a mask to be transparent. a screenshot might help (sent a request to the reporter), but this is probably a regression somewhere and we may have to use something which looks different on Windows 10. lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface