Feature request: Units selection

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Richard Fryer

• March 19, 2021 10:40

It would be great (and probably quite simple to implement) to be able select preferred units in a more granular way.  Not all users want all statute, or all metric.  For example, I want statute for route length, and for speed, but metric for sub-mile distances, and for height.   Metric for temperature.  Statute for weight.  Metric for height.

It's really annoying for the unit to force you to use units that aren't those that you'd intuitively use.

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  Ali

  • March 19, 2021 13:59
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  Hi Richard, we will be releasing this on the KarooOS in the upcoming software update. You can see a preview on the Dashboard already under Settings.

  

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  Richard Fryer

  • March 19, 2021 11:57

  That's brilliant!  The only thing that's missing is the (admittedly, rather odd) requirement to use miles, but meters rather than feet for distances to a junction.  That might seem a bit of an odd request, but in the UK we're pretty-much all metric, other than using miles for long distances (because they're on road signs).

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  Brandon Babcock

  • March 19, 2021 13:39

  I think you’re going to make quite a few Users happy with this one. Although not my personal preference, I’ve seen this request come up quite a lot. Well done HH - I’m sure this will be appreciated 

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  Steve

  • March 19, 2021 14:44

  Yes, really good to see this finally being implemented, Ali. I know this has been a very popular request for a long time now.

  Technically, "Mixed" should be part of the radio button group since it's neither "Metric" or "Imperial" if you make a custom selection. At the moment, no radio button is selected when you make a custom selection, which is slightly odd UI.

  I redrew it for you. You might want to share this with your dev team:

  

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  Martin Bednarik

  • March 19, 2021 15:40
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  @Steve I like what you outlined on the right image and I agree with you. After all that's the purpose of how a "Radio button" generally should work - let you select only one item from the group of options.

  While what Ali presented is that I could select Metric and then go into Mixed and over there select all imperial units. That's illogical view. Even tho as a user who set it this way, I know what I'm about to. I'm just saying that from UI perspective it's odd.

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