On 15 Jul 2015 11:27 pm, "Rodrigo Severo" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen > <[email protected]> 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 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 see the benefit of the autocomplete to create a new site with the same name as an existing site isn't so much that it saves a few keystrokes, but that it is explicitly either creating a new site or assigning a dive to an existing site. It helps avoid confusion. > > > Rodrigo Severo > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
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