[Kstars-devel] Wishes and Bugs

[Shriramana Sharma]

At bugs.kde.org the rule is that there is only one wish per bug number. So I 
submit this list here -- hope that's not a problem.

1. Add provision for inputting Julian Day instead of Gregorian date.

Very useful for people like me who do lots of calculations. Without this, we 
are forced to remember the output of the Julian Day conversion pane and write 
it in other panes. 

Places required: Apparent Coordinates, Horizontal Coordinates, LSR Velocity, 
Planets Coordinates.

2. Add provision for outputting JD in Equinox and Solstice calculations, or at 
least provide the below:

2. Add provision for copy-pasting dates and times between panes.

I was forced to remember and manually enter a number of dates back and forth 
between the Julian Day dialog and the Planet Coordinates Dialog. The 
Date/Time Edit controls do not provide for full selection and one-stroke 
copy. (Don't remember if Qt4 DateTimeEdit controls allow that...)

3. Do not close the calculator upon pressing enter.

This is really irksome. The Enter key should be assign to the Compute button 
of the active pane. Not to the Close button of the calculator. How many times 
I have had the Calculator close undesiredly!

4. Do not reset the input and output in all panes everytime they are opened.

In going back and forth between the JD and Planet Coordinate panes [see 
whining above :)] I was forced to reenter the latitude and longitude for the 
desired location (which was not my standard location). It is sensible to 
initialize all applicable panels to the local latitude and longitude and 
current date and time at the start of each KStars Calc session -- but not 
everytime that panel is opened. Similarly, if we forgot a result from another 
panel and go back the result is wiped out and I have to reenter the input and 
recalculate.

5. Planets coordinates > Input -- Tab order error between Date and UT

6. LSR velocity and Angular Distance are not coordinates conversion cases. 

"Coordinate Conversion" means converting the same position from one system to 
another. Do not put LSR and Angular Dist which do not fit under this 
definition under that category. You do not need to put it under *any* 
category.

7. I have submitted many typos at: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119959

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