[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Support of non-western constellations

[Médéric Boquien]

Hi Jérôme,

I have quickly tried your patch and it works fine here. I am particularly happy 
as i am the one who opened the wish in b.k.o.

Le Tuesday 14 October 2008 19:28:51 Jérôme SONRIER, vous avez écrit :
> Notes :
> Lots of constellations are missing because some stars don't have a Bayer
> designation and I can not use them in clines.dat (e.g. HD224926,
> HD2411,...). Is there a way to use this stars in clines.dat ?

Why not converting everything to use the HD numbers rather than Bayer 
designation? I guess no constellation uses a star which does not have a HD 
number.

> Cultures must appear in the same order in clines.dat and cnames.dat and
> new cultures must be added at the end of the files because KConfig
> saves the index of combobox and not the name of the culture.

Perhaps the list as displayed in the combobox should be sorted alphabetically. 
I think there is an option for this.

> All the names of new contellations are in english except when
> translation isn't avaliable; in this case the original name is use.

Are they i18n-ed?

> I found all the datas about constellations in stellarium source code.

Perhaps we should make sure those data are GPL-ed too and add the relevant ©

Regards,

Médéric