On 26 July 2017 at 06:48, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jul 25, 2017, at 7:44 PM, Linus Torvalds < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > This message was in the Subsurface "Google Groups" thing, and I'm > > moving the discussion to the development mailing list instead since I > > think more people read that one. > > > > [ I don't know how many people follow that google group, thing - I > > just do it over email anyway ]] > > > > Anyway, I suggested to Marc that the natural way to do this would be > > to make it possible to edit the "extradata" { key, value } pairs that > > we show in the "Extra Info" tab, and Marc said that would work well > > for him. > > > > But obviously I don't do UI code. But it feels like it *should* be > > fairly easy to make that "Extra data" thing be something you can add > > entries to and edit. > > That wouldn't be too terribly hard in principle. But usually once you take > that first step, people want more. Autocompletion of entries. Ability to > search and/or filter. Ability to display the information in the mobile app, > etc. > > I'm not against doing this, but I want us to do this eyes wide open. > > I really hope that Tomaz will NOT say "I'll do it", mainly because he is > working on statistics and we have too many things already that got > started and never got finished :-/ > > If we get this information from libDC or our text parsers, fine. If it is something the user will add manually they might as well add it in the notes field.
-- Jocke
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