On Thursday 06 December 2007 18:27:06 John Denker wrote: > It might help to have some sort of download-on-demand feature. > Then the "base package" can be quite small, containing just the > name, thumbnail, and short description for each aircraft, plus > the full model for a verrry small number of aircraft. Actually, I've often thought that this would be a nice feature. Not one that belongs in fgfs though (IMO), but in fgrun. I don't think that having --show-aircraft display non-installed aircraft would be useful, for example.
> This is a pretty serious user-interface issue, because it is > completely unreasonable to expect users to download new aircraft > when they don't know what's available. Showing them a menu of > what's available makes a huge difference. I think we already do this far better than either MSFS or X-Plane, since (largely due to the free/OSS nature of FG and most of our models) practically all available aircraft for FGFS are available directly from the downloads page (complete with thumbnail!) But I would definitely love to see an aircraft download & install feature in fgrun... Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
