[Kstars-devel] Kstars-devel Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

Pedro Simão pedrolimao at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 15:21:48 CEST 2008


Hi,
I am still trying to download Kstars but I dont now where to find it.
Where can I get? Is ther a version for windows?
Thx

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>   1. Re: INDI as a separate package (Brian)
>   2. KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars (Akarsh Simha)
>   3. KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools (Akarsh Simha)
>   4. Re: INDI as a separate package (Jasem Mutlaq)
>   5. (no subject)
>   6. KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/skycomponents (Akarsh Simha)
>   7. KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/skycomponents (Akarsh Simha)
>   8. KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools (Akarsh Simha)
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:29:10 +1000
> From: Brian <bnc at astronomicalresearchaustralia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Kstars-devel] INDI as a separate package
> To: KStars Development Mailing List <kstars-devel at kde.org>
> Message-ID: <48E4B086.6070001 at astronomicalresearchaustralia.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi Jasem,
> As you know I use INDI extensively every clear night.
> As long as the separate install works ok and we do not lose any
> functionality, should be fine by me.
> However, would it still integrate with kstars, i.e. will I still be able
> to right click on a star and tell the scope to slew to it?
>
> I was bit concerned when I found out that all the hardware drivers were
> being removed. Has the doco been changed to describe how to install
> required drivers?
>
> I am currently running my observatory on suse 10.3 on a 64bit machine.
> I have also installed a SUSE 11.0, which uses kde4  in part.
> What level of kde4 will I need to test the new indi?
> Can I download it vis svn?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After much consideration, I think it is better to remove INDI from KStars
> > repo and make it as an optional add on. This is due to many factors
> > including maintenance of two INDIs (KStars and the primary) and packaging
> > consideration (some distros ship the two INDIs!). Furthermore, INDI is
> only
> > available for Linux and KStars can be now run on multiple OSes. All in
> all,
> > there will be less headache and only one INDI package will be available.
> > Please let me know if there are any objections to this idea.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jasem
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Kstars-devel mailing list
> > Kstars-devel at kde.org
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kstars-devel
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:46:55 +0000
> From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars
> To: kde-commits at kde.org
> Cc: kstars-devel at kde.org
> Message-ID: <1222980415.831939.17881.nullmailer at svn.kde.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> SVN commit 867116 by asimha:
>
> Fixes incorrect message in What's Up Tonight Dialog. Should not
> translate an empty string.
>
> Many thanks to Avinash Krishnakumar and Suvinay S for helping me out.
>
> CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org
>
>
>
>  M  +4 -4      geolocation.h
>
>
> --- trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/geolocation.h #867115:867116
> @@ -124,19 +124,19 @@
>     QString name() const { return Name; }
>     /**@return translated City name
>        */
> -    QString translatedName() const { return i18nc("City name (optional,
> probably does not need a translation)", Name.toUtf8().data()); }
> -    /**@return untranslated Province name
> +    QString translatedName() const { return Name.isEmpty() ? QString() :
> i18nc("City name (optional, probably does not need a translation)",
> Name.toUtf8().data()); }
> +    /**@return untranslated Province name
>        */
>     QString province() const { return Province; }
>     /**@return translated Province name
>        */
> -    QString translatedProvince() const { return i18nc("Region/state name
> (optional, rarely needs a translation)", Province.toUtf8().data()); }
> +    QString translatedProvince() const { return Province.isEmpty() ?
> QString() : i18nc("Region/state name (optional, rarely needs a
> translation)", Province.toUtf8().data()); }
>     /**@return untranslated Country name
>        */
>     QString country() const { return Country; }
>     /**@return translated Country name
>      */
> -    QString translatedCountry() const { return i18nc("Country name
> (optional, but should be translated)", Country.toUtf8().data()); }
> +    QString translatedCountry() const { return Country.isEmpty() ?
> QString() :  i18nc("Country name (optional, but should be translated)",
> Country.toUtf8().data()); }
>
>     /**@return comma-separated city, province, country names (each
> localized)
>      */
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:22:05 +0000
> From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools
> To: kde-commits at kde.org
> Cc: kstars-devel at kde.org
> Message-ID: <1222982525.625949.19301.nullmailer at svn.kde.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> SVN commit 867132 by asimha:
>
> Fixing incorrect label in the Conjunctions Dialog. The conjunction
> tool, since quite some time, allows one of the objects to be a generic
> sky object.
>
> CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org
>
>
>
>  M  +1 -1      conjunctions.ui
>
>
> --- trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools/conjunctions.ui #867131:867132
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
>         </sizepolicy>
>        </property>
>        <property name="text" >
> -        <string>Between solar system bodies:</string>
> +        <string>Between objects:</string>
>        </property>
>       </widget>
>      </item>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 01:31:10 +0300
> From: "Jasem Mutlaq" <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>
> Subject: Re: [Kstars-devel] INDI as a separate package
> To: <bnc at astronomicalresearchaustralia.org>,    "'KStars Development
>        Mailing List'" <kstars-devel at kde.org>
> Message-ID: <001101c924de$941b3340$bc5199c0$@com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Brian,
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Message-ID: <mailman.8.1223028009.12356.kstars-devel at kde.org>
>
> packagers ship KStars, they compile it with the INDI package, and I'll try
> to make sure this happens on Linux. Regarding drivers which depend on
> external libraries like apogee, sbig, ..etc, they will not be part of the
> primary INDI package, but they'll be offered as separate packages.
> Installation-wise, I'm using SUSE BuildService to make all these packages
> available to all major distributions, and will try to include them in the
> official repo for each major distribution.
>
> Regards,
> Jasem
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian [mailto:bnc at astronomicalresearchaustralia.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:29 PM
> > To: KStars Development Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Kstars-devel] INDI as a separate package
> >
> > Hi Jasem,
> > As you know I use INDI extensively every clear night.
> > As long as the separate install works ok and we do not lose any
> > functionality, should be fine by me.
> > However, would it still integrate with kstars, i.e. will I still be
> > able
> > to right click on a star and tell the scope to slew to it?
> >
> > I was bit concerned when I found out that all the hardware drivers were
> > being removed. Has the doco been changed to describe how to install
> > required drivers?
> >
> > I am currently running my observatory on suse 10.3 on a 64bit machine.
> > I have also installed a SUSE 11.0, which uses kde4  in part.
> > What level of kde4 will I need to test the new indi?
> > Can I download it vis svn?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
> > Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After much consideration, I think it is better to remove INDI from
> > KStars
> > > repo and make it as an optional add on. This is due to many factors
> > > including maintenance of two INDIs (KStars and the primary) and
> > packaging
> > > consideration (some distros ship the two INDIs!). Furthermore, INDI
> > is only
> > > available for Linux and KStars can be now run on multiple OSes. All
> > in all,
> > > there will be less headache and only one INDI package will be
> > available.
> > > Please let me know if there are any objections to this idea.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jasem
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Kstars-devel mailing list
> > > Kstars-devel at kde.org
> > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kstars-devel
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Kstars-devel mailing list
> > Kstars-devel at kde.org
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kstars-devel
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:51:22 +0000
> From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/skycomponents
> To: kde-commits at kde.org
> Cc: kstars-devel at kde.org
> Message-ID: <1222995082.417519.25899.nullmailer at svn.kde.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> SVN commit 867186 by asimha:
>
> Remove the warning about magnitude jump. While this is great help for
> debugging and exposes hidden problems, it is a nuisance with the NOMAD
> catalog and since the catalogs and code are pretty much fine, it might
> be safe to remove it now.
>
> CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org
>
>
>
>  M  +2 -0      starblocklist.cpp
>
>
> --- trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/skycomponents/starblocklist.cpp
> #867185:867186
> @@ -135,10 +135,12 @@
>        }
>
>         blocks[nBlocks - 1]->addStar( &star );
> +        /*
>         if( faintMag > -5.0 && fabs(faintMag - blocks[nBlocks -
> 1]->getFaintMag()) > 0.2 ) {
>             kDebug() << "Encountered a jump from mag" << faintMag << "to
> mag"
>                      << blocks[nBlocks - 1]->getFaintMag() << "in trixel"
> << trixel;
>         }
> +        */
>         faintMag = blocks[nBlocks - 1]->getFaintMag();
>         nStars++;
>     }
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:23:57 +0000
> From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/skycomponents
> To: kde-commits at kde.org
> Cc: kstars-devel at kde.org
> Message-ID: <1222997037.226692.26190.nullmailer at svn.kde.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> SVN commit 867187 by asimha:
>
> Manage the setting of the inDraw flag correctly.
>
> Thanks to Madhusudhan, Santhosh and Krishna for working on it.
>
> CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org
>
>
>
>  M  +2 -2      deepstarcomponent.cpp
>
>
> --- trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/skycomponents/deepstarcomponent.cpp
> #867186:867187
> @@ -178,8 +178,8 @@
>     float radius = map->fov();
>     if ( radius > 90.0 ) radius = 90.0;
>
> -    if ( m_skyMesh->inDraw() ) {
> -        printf("Warning: aborting concurrent
> DeepStarComponent::draw()\n");
> +    if ( m_skyMesh != SkyMesh::Instance() && m_skyMesh->inDraw() ) {
> +        printf("Warning: aborting concurrent DeepStarComponent::draw()");
>     }
>     bool checkSlewing = ( map->isSlewing() && Options::hideOnSlew() );
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:32:28 +0000
> From: Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools
> To: kde-commits at kde.org
> Cc: kstars-devel at kde.org
> Message-ID: <1222997548.890329.26290.nullmailer at svn.kde.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> SVN commit 867188 by asimha:
>
> The conjunctions tool must object if both objects selected are the
> same.
>
> Thanks for the patch, Prakash.
>
> CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org
>
>
>
>  M  +6 -3      conjunctions.cpp
>
>
> --- trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools/conjunctions.cpp #867187:867188
> @@ -138,11 +138,11 @@
>                 break;
>             }
>             case 9: {
> -                Object1 = (KSComet *) new KSComet( (KSComet &)
> *fd.selectedObject() );
> +                Object1 =  new KSComet( (KSComet &) *fd.selectedObject()
> );
>                 break;
>             }
>             case 10: {
> -                Object1 = (KSAsteroid *) new KSAsteroid( (KSAsteroid &)
> *fd.selectedObject() );
> +                Object1 =  new KSAsteroid( (KSAsteroid &)
> *fd.selectedObject() );
>                 break;
>             }
>             }
> @@ -179,7 +179,10 @@
>         return;
>     }
>     Object2 = KSPlanetBase::createPlanet( Obj2ComboBox->currentIndex() );
> -
> +    if( Object1->name() == Object2->name() ) {
> +       KMessageBox::sorry( 0 , i18n("Please select two different objects
> to check conjunctions with.") );
> +       return;
> +    }
>     QApplication::setOverrideCursor( QCursor(Qt::WaitCursor) );
>     KSConjunct ksc;
>     ComputeStack->setCurrentIndex( 1 );
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
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> End of Kstars-devel Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2
> *******************************************
>



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