On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Renk Thorsten <thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi> wrote: >> *Please* don't drop the z/Z key binding. This is one of the most >> useful and direct controls we have to affect the visual experience. > (...) >> It's fecking difficult to operate a mouse/menu/slider while using a >> joystick >> unless you are ambidextrous >> (which I'm not) > > Can anyone please explain to me why one needs to change visibility manually > during flight so often? > [snip] > > I understand that visibility needs to be manually controllable for setting up > specific training conditions. But this doesn't need to happen in-flight all > the time and can be from the menu. I understand that visibility has a role > for memory management, but that doesn't need to be done in-flight either, > memory management can be done much more efficiently by setting a max. > visibility value once and just store it. You can't micro-manage memory > consumption by adjusting visibility all the time because a) you'd need to > have an open system monitor to see memory occupancy and b) you'd need to know > in advance how much memory the next tiles to be loaded will have. >[snip] > > The question to me is not 'Do some people use it?' The question we should > answer is 'Given the alternative between a key binding to change visibility > and assigning a new key-binding to a function you can actually perform in a > cockpit, isn't the second option better'? For instance assume we would assign > z/Z to changing the NAV1 frequency or the heading of the AP - these are > functions which I perform basically all the time when I don't do pure VFR and > it's rather awkward to open the menu or hit a tiny clickspot. > > Personally, I think reserving key binding for things which you can really do > in a real cockpit is not a bad concept. And I would really like to understand > why some people think it's necessary to change the visibility so often that a > menu option doesn't work for them whereas I need to change my NAV frequencies > in the menu (while flying the plane with the mouse... I can do this with just > one control device)
As a Linux desktop user, in recent times I've come to expect this kind of discussion to be followed by permanent deletion of the entire feature in question, especially when it's related to user configuration and controllability. So I'll certainly cop to over-reacting on that basis - it was starting to sound like visibility would no longer be user-controllable at all. I have no issue with setting it by a slider or whatever, only with the idea of deleting it altogether, and it sounds like that wasn't being discussed after all. Given that, your detailed rationale for selecting key bindings makes a lot of sense. Gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
