On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Lutz Vieweg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/27/2015 12:55 AM, Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > >> I don't know enough about the inner mechanics of that GUI to >> understand >> why this could mean a large-scale change, but isn't binding a press >> of the "Enter" key event in an edit field to the same function as when >> the "Apply Changes" button is pressed a trivial thing? >> >> >> Not when you are dealing with bulk - changes, for instance: >> you may have started editing your dive but then realize that you edited >> the wrong dive >> hit enter by mistake ( easy to hit ) and you saved your changes >> > > So it takes two mistakes (hitting enter without actually wanting to > commit plus typing Ctrl-s) to accidentally overwrite one attribute > of 1 to N dives. And still you want another layer of security by > requiring a mouse move and button press? > That seems kind of exaggerated to me... especially if it is only > one single dive being edited. > > Plus, isn't there also an "Undo" function as another safety net? > > If somebody really loses data despite all these safety measures, > Subsurface could display a warning dialog: "Diving is dangerous. > Fewer mistakes than you just made can cause a fatal accident. > Please consider more mistake-forgiving recreational activities." ;-) >
I agree, and that's the reason I'm revisiting this for 5.0 for 4.5 it's too late for a change unfortunately ( mostly because I'm the main UI developer of subsurface and I'm having almost no spare time to work on it so we play with what we have ) > Regards, > > Lutz Vieweg >
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