[Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools

[Akarsh Simha]

> It would be really cool if the find dialog for selecting a conjunction
> object would only show objects for which a conjunction is possible.
> That is, whose positions lie within +- X degrees from the ecliptic.
> 
> Since X depends on which planet is selected, we would probably want to
> reverse the order of UI controls so the "solar system only" selector
> comes first.  That way, when the user opens the Find Dialog, the list
> of objects can be filtered properly.
> 
> If we do this, we'll probably want to subclass FindDialog so we have a
> variant that does the kind of filtering by ecliptic latitude that we
> want (i.e., this feature is probably not of interest outside of this
> use case).  A subclass would also allow us to show only solar system
> objects for the first dialog (it's a combobox now, but when we add
> comets/asteroids, it will have to be a find dialog button as well).
> 
> Anyway, just some ideas.

Great ideas, and I'll try to implement them tomorrow. 

Regards
Akarsh
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