Athlete tiles

[Paul J]

I've been looking at fixing the following with the Athlete view:

1) when athletes are created/deleted the tiles often end up overlapped, they just require dragging to reposition them.

2) placement of new athlete tiles (after initial load) given they can be dragged.

3) Removing planned activities from the last activity summary text

4) making the tiles more functional, I have a prototype with the following appearance (see Athlete after.png) which moves the backup and deletion of athletes from the menu bar "Athlete" tab to the tiles.

I'm happy to create a PR with any combination of 1-4 above, any opinions on whether making the tiles more functional is better (or worse) ?

[Ale Martinez]

You remove Athlete > Settings and, paraphrasing Maradona, me cortas las piernas :)

[Paul J]

:)

The Athlete-> settings can be restored to the menu if you wish, but I think it is clearer which athlete's settings are being edited when the user clicks on the athlete's tile.

[Paul J]

Looking at the Athlete menu again, I now realise that "Save all modified activities.." also only applies to the selected athlete. So I'm now thinking this should also be moved to the individual athlete tiles as a "Save modified" button which could have red background if there are any modified (unsaved) activities, and green background when there are none, would that be better? All relevant athlete actions would then be through the tiles. 

[Ale Martinez]

El domingo, 25 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 6:48:23 a.m. UTC-3, paulj...@gmail.com escribió:

Looking at the Athlete menu again, I now realise that "Save all modified activities.." also only applies to the selected athlete. So I'm now thinking this should also be moved to the individual athlete tiles as a "Save modified" button which could have red background if there are any modified (unsaved) activities, and green background when there are none, would that be better? All relevant athlete actions would then be through the tiles.

Sure, and the next time you look at this you will find New belongs to Athlete view and close after config so you can remove the athlete menu… I would really hate this change…

For me Athlete > settings.. is particularly useful because it allows to open the dialog on top of a chart s.t. CP which helps to set zones, you can’t do that using the cog icon in Athletes view, besides I am an old bloke used to menus.

[Ale Martinez]

El domingo, 25 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 8:59:31 a.m. UTC-3, Ale Martinez escribió:

El domingo, 25 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 6:48:23 a.m. UTC-3, paulj...@gmail.com escribió:

Looking at the Athlete menu again, I now realise that "Save all modified activities.." also only applies to the selected athlete. So I'm now thinking this should also be moved to the individual athlete tiles as a "Save modified" button which could have red background if there are any modified (unsaved) activities, and green background when there are none, would that be better? All relevant athlete actions would then be through the tiles.

Sure, and the next time you look at this you will find New belongs to Athlete view and close after config so you can remove the athlete menu… I would really hate this change…

For me Athlete > settings.. is particularly useful because it allows to open the dialog on top of a chart s.t. CP which helps to set zones, you can’t do that using the cog icon in Athletes view, besides I am an old bloke used to menus.

PS: I am not against making Athletes view more functional and intuitive, I am against to remove the menu options, at least until the new UX proves to be better.

[Paul J]

I have restored all the athlete menu options, and the athlete tiles will just be more functional, so it can support both ways of working.

[Ale Martinez]

Paul's work is available for review and testing on https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/pull/4815, binaries for testing are available from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Joern-R/goldencheetah-knhd8/builds/53513479 selecting your Operating System then Artifacts.

It would be interesting some coach or other people regularly using multiple athletes can give it a try and provide feedback.

Thanks in advance, Ale.