On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 06:28, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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> > On Nov 6, 2020, at 11:11 PM, Kim Delmar via subsurface 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 3. Windows 7(!) 64-bit: installer from /downloads, 
> > subsurface-4.9.7-247-g1d7a44ea855.exe
>
> Windows 7. NICE :-)

Hah! Rather insecure these days, and you cant BLE download with it.
But, if nothing else, it makes it easier to import old divelogs from
other Win7-based software into Subsurface.

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> > - There's no User manual menu item in my build. I expect I did something 
> > wrong when I built from source. A quick test of the prebuilt AppImage from 
> > /downloads (Subsurface-4.9.7-247-g1d7a44ea8b55-x86_64.AppImage) shows it 
> > has a functioning user manual.
>
> You have to install QtWebKit-devel and then call the build.sh with 
> '-build-with-webkit' in order to get the built in user manual...

Thanks - that worked. My local Ubuntu build has a manual now. Can this
flag be mentioned somewhere in the INSTALL document?

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> > Interestingly, BLE dive computer downloads were *much* faster on MacOS than 
> > on Ubuntu. 3-4 seconds per dive on MacOS, 12-15 seconds per dive under 
> > Ubuntu. Not sure if that is a consequence of the different BLE dongles in 
> > use, or something else.
>
> It's a timing issue between the various layers of the code. Linus has tried 
> to figure out why it sometimes gets so bleeping slow. 15 seconds times 170 
> dives... yeah, that takes 40 minutes... I'm impressed that the download 
> completed, frankly.
> But of course, in normal use scenarios people rarely need to download more 
> than half a dozen dives...

Yes indeed, 40 minutes. I went off and had lunch.  But yes, not really
a problem for typical usage on or after a dive trip.

I also tested if downloads still work from my beloved Aladin Pro dive computer.
They do still work. This filled my heart with great joy.

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> > - There was a strange units/preference problem - weights were showing in 
> > pounds, despite the preferences being set to metric. But the greyed-out 
> > "personalized" settings showed a mix of metric/imperial, seems like this is 
> > what was being used. Clicking "personalize" and back to "metric" reset 
> > everything to metric and it all works as expected now, and I cant reproduce 
> > it. I dont know how it got into this inconsistent state, but I rarely use 
> > windows; it probably started up with a preference file from a much older 
> > version.
>
> Ugh, that's annoying. But yeah, that could be a left over from a previous 
> run... if it's fixed after switching once, I'm leaning towards ignoring this 
> one.

Agreed, not worth spending any time on this.

> > Overall, everything worked pretty well, I didnt see any showstoppers.
>
> I repeat, thank you so much. This is really a huge deal. I really wished that 
> more people found the time to do similar tests... you alone already found 
> half a dozen issues that we can now try to fix prior to the release.
>
> Much appreciated.
>
> /D

And a huge vote of thanks from me to all the developers. If we ever
meet on a dive trip somewhere, I owe you all a $BEVERAGE.

-- Kim.
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