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Date:
2009-04-14 17:44
Priority:
1
State:
Open
Submitted by:
Jeanette Schmidt (jeanette)
Assigned to:
Christopher Bruns (cmbruns)
Summary:
Make temperature pull downs consistent (same choices for differents unit)

Detailed description
When possible make temperature choices consistent across pull downs.
For example since 100 degrees Celsius is a choice in the pulldown it makes sense to have a a corresponding choice for Fahrenheit and Kelvin - especially for the "boiling, body, room, freezing" choices.

This does not really add any functionality whatsoever but just looks more consistent.

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Date: 2009-04-14 18:28
Sender: Christopher Bruns


212 for Fahrenheit? Perhaps yes. 373.15 for Kelvin? I don't think so.

If you are suggesting that there should be a strict one-to-one correspondence between all of the temperature pull downs then I strongly disagree. These pull downs are not meant to be used as an aligned table of temperature conversions.

For example, adding Celsius and Fahrenheit default options corresponding to 300K would be cluttering and confusing. I will fight hard to avoid that particular ridiculous addition to the default options. It would add clutter in exchange for an extremely dubious advantage.

Therefore I request that you explicitly list one or two additional default options that you think should be there. Then perhaps we can begin to formulate some criteria more subtle than the perhaps-not-so-useful "everything consistent" criterion.

Remember that the user always has the option of typing in a particular value, in case we find a user who's natural notion of "boiling temperature" is 373.15K. I assert that that is *not* a typical user. Even if that user exists, she has plenty of options: 1) Finding a keyboard and typing in a value explicitly, or 2) selecting "boiling" from the first pull down.

Further, I would like to remove some of the default temperatures that are there right now, if I could find others to replace them; they are in there because of an "at least three items in each pull down" principle.

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