On 2019/05/03 18:40, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
I apologize for being absent from this discussion. A lot going on in
my life which is zapping my time and energy.
Instead of trying to respond to every single post in this thread, I
picked what I believe is the last one to respond to and will try to
give my perspective...
- I like the idea of refactoring the two tabs
- when we do that, we should start from a clean slate and think about
what makes the most sense, not necessarily what causes the least change
- the Equipment tab has been something I hated for a long time, so we
might consider the impact on that as well
With that in mind, and without trying to make decisions, but with the
thought of providing input, here are some of my thoughts:
- the suit should be on on the same tab as the equipment; I know some
people want to be able to track other equipment as well, but that
should be a starting point to make things more generic on that tab
- date, time, location, people on the dive, and the long notes seem
all obvious things to have on the notes tab
- I don't think the dive mode belongs there, nor do the temperatures
or surface pressure or things like that
- all those other things should move to the information tab - and we
need to think about a way to make it obvious for the user which of
those are editable
Thank you for the feedback, Dirk. My general philosophy would be to make
the Notes tab something that attracts and satisfies the newby diver.
Such a diver may perhaps not be interested to log the more esoteric
information. So the Notes page should satisfy this diver completely. I
can see a diver with a longer term diving interest start off only doing
the Notes tab with basic information on date and locality, buddy and
dive master. For this reason my opinion is that the overall 5-star
rating tag may perhaps be useful on the Notes tab: it's the sort of
thing that would appeal to a newby. Once the diver gets more experience,
she/he may be interested to log equipment information with cylinder end
pressures and later on to use the full facilities of the software. Of
course it's difficult to generalise but if one could cater for a
significant proportion of the recreational OW market (those that maybe
dive some ten dives a year) just on the Notes page, that would be really
good for the user base of Subsurface. If the Notes tab is cluttered or
too technical those users are likely to gravitate to DiveMate or similar.
Kind regards,
willem
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