On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, bdwashbu <bdwas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bogdan - thanks for the input. I suspected there was a reason this feature > didn't exist. As the new guy, I never meant to disrespect the current GUI > philosophies or the work you've done. What you guys have already created is > awesome! I don't want to make it worse. > > A plugin sounds like a good approach. I will investigate. I surely never > meant to hack anything together, and I definitely haven't committed > anything. I just need a little direction from management (if there is such > a thing?).
Well, most of the work on that part of the interface has been done by Fabien, Stellarium's original author, who is mostly absent at the moment. It is debatable how well it works/is implemented. :) "Fuzzy" things like that are good for beginners, but amateur astronomers want more control. Otherwise, yes, it's nice to have in mind that Stellarium is used for several different purposes by several different groups of people with different requirements and expectations. We have a bit of a "Jack of all trades, master of none" situation going on. We are also trying to make our own niche, otherwise we will be just re-inventing someone else's wheel. As for the plug-in, I don't recommend it. Anything like this will require changes to the core code (NebulaMgr, etc) to provide the functionality behind the GUI. A plug-in implementing such a feature will have to duplicate the whole DSO engine. You can make only the interface as a plug-in, though this doesn't make much sense to me. Have a look at the way plug-ins work in general and the existing plug-ins that have their own interfaces and tell me what you think. As for the management, no, there is not much of a hard structure, which is one of the reasons the project is in its current state. There is a loose chain of seniority/experience, but we try to make decisions with discussion and consensus. Regards, Bogdan Marinov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
