On 6 Jan 2015 16:16, "Dirk Hohndel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:11:38AM +0100, Joakim Bygdell wrote: > > > We have traditionally shown the gas we thought most "interesting". So if > > > you are diving trimix, the one with the highest He. If diving air, show > > > air. But if diving with multiple flavors of nitrox, it's debatable what's > > > most interesting. The bottom gas? The highest percentage deco gas? That's > > > why we do these ranges... > > > > > > Before changing this I'd really like to have a conversation here on what > > > people would like us to display (and why). > > > > > > > First of all, the dive list is the only place where we use other gas names than any where else. > > We even have two different names for air depending on if it is the only gas or if the dive have multiple gases. > > > > Secondly we should be more consistent in how we display things, > > either we show deco gases if they exist or we don’t, regardless if the bottom mix contains helium or not. > > > > After changing that it becomes rather obvious that we only should show one gas or we will start showing stuff like 18/45..oxygen. > > > > The only time it might be a issue which gas we should show is if the dive have multiple nitro mixes that are fairly close in oxygen content. > > But on the other hand does it matter if we show EAN31 or EAN33 in the dive list? > > So you wrote the patch and you argued your point. > > I want to hear from others, but maybe no one cares? > > I'll admit that I like what we currently do, given my diving patterns it > gives me great information. I'm pretty sure that Linus likes it, too, > since he's the one who implemented it :-) > > What about the other main contributors? Anton, Miika, Robert, Willem? > > What about the very silent very majority... there are 250 people on this > list. About 10% of them write code, so the rest are by definition most > likely users... any comments? > > /D > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
I'm probably the wrong person to answer this, but to my mind I would prefer to show the actual gases used. Currently I'm using different forms of nitrox, and I really prefer seeing the correct names of the gases used. Deco gas can be the main difference between two dives, and it can be a rather large difference. Benjamin
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