And the new zoom function makes it really easy to "dive" into speed or elevation profiles and to catch any point with range select tool
zero Le 22/11/2016 à 18:24, Oliver Eichler a écrit : > >>> ... >>> And when I started with QMS I made a list of errors I will not make >>> again. One of them is implementing features I personally do not need. >> I somehow doubt that this attitude (implementing features one personally >> doesn't need is an ERROR), fits well with the ideas behind public domain >> software. > First, QMS is open source licensed under GPL3. This is not public domain > at all. And open source does not mean: Everybody wishes and one has to > implement the stuff. No way. It is your freedom to take the code and to > extend it to whatever suits you. As it is published under GPL3 you have > to publish your changes if you distribute your derivative. The easiest > way to comply is to contribute your code to the project. > > The basic idea behind open source is that everyone is implementing the > stuff they personally need by extending existing code and contributing > back. By that you do not have to code all by yourself and you pay back > by contributing. It's a gentlemen agreement that has been exploited by > users severely. I know no other situation in real live where people ask > so blatant and shameless others for free work than in today's open > source projects. > > Besides that, wishing is one thing. It has to fit, too. In QLGT I was > stupid enough to implement every wish. Often I never got any feedback > from the one wishing. In many cases I found a severe bug months later > realizing no one ever used that stuff. Wasted time and it made QLGT the > mess it is. > >> When I ran into this trackpoint list for the first time, I too was ask- >> ing myself, what the heck is that list good for. If it's good for noth- >> ing and read-only anyway, why not simply remove it? The information >> shown in that list is also displayed above the graphs when you hover the >> mouse over a trackpoint in one of the graphs and you could as well dis- >> play this information when the mouse hovers over a trackpoint in the map >> view. > It's there because if it wouldn't be there everyone would ask why it is > missing. ;) > >> This would make selecting a range in the map view more precise because >> of the additional information you could base your selection on. >> >> > Let's look at the information you usually select a range: > > * Position. I can't read coordinates in the sense that I can picture a > position on the map by it's coordinate. But I can see a point on the map > and I can click on it. > > * Elevation. I use the range selection to measure slopes. Instead of > finding the local extrema in a list I simply select two points in the > profile. It's way easier. > > * Speed. This is often used when selecting activities. Again it's much > easier for me to find that stuff in the speed graph than in some endless > list. > > If I would really miss that selection via list I would have already > implemented it. In the beginning of QMS it was even on the todo list. > But funny enough I did not miss it. And as already said I started it > some time ago out of a mood and it didn't really fit in. > > > Which brings us back to open source. If anyone thinks he or she can do > better, implement it, take the challenge of a pull request and if it > fits in without breaking something and the code is in a state that is > maintainable, it will be part of the package. > > I definitely love to spend my time on pull requests and to discuss code > rather than to take orders to implement other people wishes. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
