Plasma mobile HID question: popup on long press

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Freitag, 8. Januar 2016 12:25:19 CET Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Ha. I love being the guinea pig (Versuchskaninchen is even cuter).

Gooooood *rubbing hands*...
 
> We have a list with a LOT of elements. Think dozens added a day, for some
> people who've used the app for a long time this can go into the thousands.
> Many users don't interact with this list directly, they'll just ask the
> app to process the list and apply the data from it to their list of dives.
> 
> (background: the list I'm talking about is a list of GPS locations - you
> run the app in the background and based on some criteria it adds GPS
> locations. think you are on a dive boat and let the app running; now after
> you downloaded your dives into your dive list, Subsurface can match those
> two lists and figure out the location where you went diving; easy)
> 
> But many of our users ask us for the ability to
> a) see where these GPS fixes are on a map and
> b) selectively delete some of these GPS fixes
> 
> It seemed rather intuitive to me to allow people to tap the gps fix in the
> list and open a QLocation based map that shows a satellite image with a
> place marker.
> And to long press the entry and get a question "do you want to delete this
> GPS fix?" with Yes/No answer.

To me, this sounds like a case for the "slide to reveal actions" pattern (see 
[1]). Would that work in your case?


[1] https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Patterns/CommandPatterns