> On Apr 22, 2018, at 2:28 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Sorry for adding a bunch of issues, but I have been testing while compiling, 
> and found a number of issues (at least on the Mac version).

Don't apologize for filing bugs. That's how we find out that apparently you 
cannot enter manual dives with durations between 50-59 minutes. Who knew...
As you've seen, on some things the difference between an "issue" and "works as 
designed" may be in the eye of the beholder :-)

> Once I get settled in, I have the intention of solving some of the issues. It 
> is interesting, some things that does not work on my Mac, works on iOS and 
> visa versa, so I have found myself having subsurface open on my iPad and my 
> Mac.

There is a lot of shared code in the backend (and that should behave reasonably 
consistently), but the UI is mostly different and I am unsurprised that there 
are differences. Some of those might be intentional, the majority is likely 
simply a bug or an oversight.

> Having played quite a bit with the 4.7.8 version, I see features lacking (at 
> least for how I would like to use the software), but before adding a feature 
> request, I would like to hear the opinion of others.
> 
> We have “Country” and “Location”, but not a possibility to remember the club. 
> I frequently dive in the same location with 3 different clubs/shops and I 
> would like to be able to see the differences e.g. in quality. It is of course 
> to violate “Dive master” to e.g. “iSub/Antonio”, but would it not be nice to 
> have this info as a separate field ?

Dive locations are a major problem, because so many people have so many 
completely different ideas what they want to store there. Some people would 
love a nine level taxonomy starting with the galaxy, down to the name of the 
dive club and boat. Others want to just put a name there. And any combination 
in between. Our solution is half baked, and only so on Subsurface, all these 
data aren't accessible on mobile. If you click on the little globe to the right 
of the Location entry on the desktop, it will allow you to Enter the Name, 
Country, Description, etc. And you have that Notes field that allows you to go 
completely crazy. That's where you could add the shop.

> The dive list is a wonderful thing, but it would be nice to have all fields 
> selectable (e.g. Dive master is not in the select list) and have 
> sub-groupings. E.g. I sort by “Dive Master”, should group when there is a 
> break and add a short summary line. That would enable us to look at how 
> different Dive masters perform ?

I'll admit that you are the first user that ever asked for the name of the dive 
master in the dive list. That shows again how individual people have very 
different expectation from a dive log. I cannot imagine why I would want to 
sort my dives by dive master... but that's what's fun about humans - they all 
have different interests and ideas. I'm not opposed to adding this column (I 
guess the next person will add for the Buddies column as well). I'm not sure 
how that grouping would work, but I look forward to seeing the code. Given the 
widget set that we use, there are potentially some limitations there.

> And yes I know how this works, “If you have itch, scratch it”, but I wanted 
> to hear opinions first.

You'll see that there are a few of us who tend to be happy to share their 
opinions :-)

/D
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