[Kstars-devel] Full screen mode

[Heiko Evermann]

Hi Jason, hi everyone,

>>How do we go on from here? Shall I implement the full screen mode or
>>is anyone else working on some central files anyway? It seems to be a
>>question of just a few lines of code.
>>
>>    
>>
>Yes!  Please go ahead.
>
I have added full screen support in head. I tried CCMAIL, but it did not 
show up in my mailbox. (What was wrong?)

It works just fine. I have added "full screen" in the view menu and in 
the toolbar. The menu entry switches the text, and the toolbar button 
automagically gets displayed as "pressed"/"not pressed"

... and ...

it gets translated without any change! It uses a KDE standard action and 
it is covered by kdelibs.po.

Only one question: should we save full screen mode together with other 
options? At the moment we save window size and position. So if you 
switch to full screen, close kstars and repopen it, you get a very big 
window, but no full screen. If we want to change that, we would have to 
change kstarsoptions. Would it still be compatible with older saved 
options? What changes would be neccessary there?

Apart from this little drawback, I think it just works fine. Please try 
it out and tell me, whether it is working, and whether it still displays 
everything correctly. To me it seems to, but there might be some 
astronomical details in the calculations that I miss.

> ...but you can't add it to BRANCH; this would count as a new feature.


I don't know why we shouldn't also add it to KDE_3_2_BRANCH after it is 
thoroughly tested. Is there any mailing list to ask for permission? Is 
there a total feature freeze, even though KDE 3.2.0 is out? I had 
thought that the feature and string freeze only apply till KDE 3.2(.0) 
was done. It is even possible to add some (limited number of) new 
strings if you are so polite to inform i18n-kde-doc to inform the 
translators about it, if it is some improvement worth the effort.

Besides: full screen mode is listed in bugs.kde.org (ok, as a wish, but 
it is listed) and it does not afflict the translators at all. So where 
is the problem. Should users really wait for KDE 3.3 to have a full 
screen of kstars? It might be different for menu color change for night 
vision etc.

>Welcome back!  :)
>
I have never been far away. I am still on the list. It is just that 
there has been a lot of programming in kstars over time where I know far 
too little about astronomy. So I just listened and spent my free time on 
KDE in Low Saxon instead.

Regards,

Heiko