diff --git a/desktop-widgets/mainwindow.cpp b/desktop-widgets/mainwindow.cpp
index c509a7607..0760e747d 100644
--- a/desktop-widgets/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/desktop-widgets/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ void MainWindow::enableDisableOtherDCsActions()
 void MainWindow::setDefaultState()
 {
 	setApplicationState("Default");
-	if (mainTab->getEditMode() != MainTab::NONE)
+	if (mainTab->isEditing())
 		ui.bottomLeft->currentWidget()->setEnabled(false);
 }
 
diff --git a/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.cpp b/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.cpp
index 7dda4c0e7..d1e47ddd9 100644
--- a/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.cpp
+++ b/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.cpp
@@ -704,11 +704,6 @@ void MainTab::reload()
 		mark_divelist_changed(true);                 \
 	} while (0)
 
-MainTab::EditMode MainTab::getEditMode() const
-{
-	return editMode;
-}
-
 void MainTab::refreshDisplayedDiveSite()
 {
 	struct dive_site *ds = get_dive_site_for_dive(current_dive);
diff --git a/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.h b/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.h
index 9968472c9..8b08cdf68 100644
--- a/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.h
+++ b/desktop-widgets/tab-widgets/maintab.h
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ slots:
 	void toggleTriggeredColumn();
 	void updateTextLabels(bool showUnits = true);
 	void escDetected(void);
-	EditMode getEditMode() const;
 private:
 	Ui::MainTab ui;
 	WeightModel *weightModel;