[Kstars-devel] Cities and bug report

[Jasem Mutlaq]

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 10:34 am, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> I would like kstars to be able to get the space and *time* coordinates
> directly from a GPS device. It's not that hard as GPS devices now
> support the standard NMEA protocol, and a little daemon that parses the
> serial ouput is already available (gpsd).
>
> Maybe, if I get into QT/KDE programmin and I have enough time, I could
> contribute such a piece of code...
>
>I think that would be a great addition.  Jasem, do you think such a feature 
>would belong as a part of INDI, or would it be a separate plugin?

It could be done either way. Converting the existing gpsd implementation to an 
INDI driver would take extra work. This seems like a nice feature to have and 
was even mentioned before, so I'll add it to my KDE 3.3 TODO list.

Cheers,
Jasem

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