Josh Babcock > Dave Culp wrote: > > > FlightGear is *full* of presets that I don't care for at all, and I went > > through the learning process that everyone has to go through, wherein > you > > learn how the preferences are read and in what order, and how to > configure > > each run the way you want to. Maybe the folks running FG from the UI > get a > > different concept of what FG is than those who don't? > >
> No, I think that the configuration has just plain gotten more > complicated than it has to be. Not that there are more options than > there should be, just that configurations are getting hidden away in odd > places. fg is so powerful that it is easy to abuse. We should probably > be asking "should I do this" a lot more than "can I do this". Whenever > someone puts something in a file, they should be asking "is this the > right place to put this, does it make sense, what will it prevent?". > > Anyway, can someone grab those three files and commit them? They are > very simple changes and make two T-38s, one with the radar demo > activated and one without: > > tower:chords$ fgfs --show-aircraft > > Available aircraft: > <snip> > T38 Northrop T-38 > T38-radar Northrop T-38 refueling demo > <snip> > Josh, I'm right with you on this one. As I said, we shouldn't unnecessarily muck about with users' preferences, keyboards, joysticks, or whatever. David has a good point too: many user's will never find the refuelling, thermal or carrier stuff. I wonder how many users know that there is a working simulation of the guns on the Spitfire (if they don't it's my fault)? All that's necessary is that where we aircraft designers override users' preferences is that we make clear that we are doing so. Having 2 T38's is perfectly reasonable (c.f. Hunter). BTW leaving .tgz files around in the hope that someone with cvs access is going to pick them up and submit them is a bit of a long shot. Send them to Curt, Erik, or Melchior with a clear explanation of the change and what it is you are trying to do. V. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
