I agree that having "About" under "Help" never seemed that logical....... however a lot of desktop apps do put it there :D
I just checked Chrome, Eclipse, DBeaver and Notepad++ Not very useful input there, sorry! On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, 4:21 pm Dirk Hohndel, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2020, at 7:22 PM, Willem Ferguson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > The Mobile menu system is getting quite complex and if the developer > options are enabled all the options often do not fit onto a smartphone > screen. Would it make sense to reorganise the main menu? > > Not sure what you mean by "all options". All menu options? Yes, that > happens. But the drawer scrolls nicely. > > > An obvious improvement is to get all the dive list operations together. > These are: 1) Copy dive list to clipboard; 2) Map; 3) Dive summary. [(4) > Export???]. Ideally these options should be available from the dive list > itself. A possibility is the right-hand part of the banner at the top of > the dive list. That would be the most intuitive way. The not-so-perfect > alternative is to insert them as items on a new main menu item, "Dive list > tools" > > We don't have (1) above. > (2) I find the Map rather useless and would like to remove it as a menu > option > (3) yeah, not sure this should be a top level item - but it doesn't > reasonably fit under any of the existing items > (4) I find export fairly useless on a mobile device. This was something > that a former developer who has stopped participating in this project > absolutely wanted - but to me that is a weird feature on a mobile device > (especially since we intentionally do not support the rather symmetrical > "import" feature) > > We will add a context drawer (extends from the right) in the near future - > that will include options such as undo or trip management options on the > dive list - but this requires a fundamental rewrite of the models used > (Berthold and I have been working on this for several months). But I don't > think that's useful for any of these menu entries. But I'm happy to > contemplate this some more > > > Maybe the Export option could be part of the Dive Management menu? Would > Copy dive list to clipboard fit better here? > > Again, at least my version of Subsurface-mobile doesn't support "copy dive > list to clipboard". > > > The About screen contains very little useful information. The software > version has been removed and I cannot find it in the App log. Would it make > sense to move the About screen to the Help menu? > > That was a bug in the previous beta, the latest beta fixes this (also > caused by code introduced by aforementioned developer). > I'm ok with moving "About" under "Help". Not the most logical spot for it, > but on the flip side, it's not something people are likely to need very > often. > We will need to update the manual with all that, of course. But then, the > About screen has become even less important with the in-app support button. > > This is all really good input and good food for thought. > > Thanks > > /D > > > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface >
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