[Kstars-devel] bugs in kstar

[Akarsh Simha]

Hi Bill

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug.

> there does not seem to be any bug reporting facility for kstars (the 
> menu option relating to this refers you back to asus.com !)  so I am 
> using this address.

We have a KDE bug reporting system at http://bugs.kde.org and we use
that for KStars as well.

> I have kstars loaded on an EEEPC900.  The first problem is setting the 
> home location:  many of the preinstalled cities have the wrong 
> coordinates (e.g. my location Windhoek Namibia) and it is impossible to 
> edit them.  It is also impossible to delete the attempts to do this, so 
> I have not about 12 erroneous entries for 'Windhoek'.  From the help I 
> see that I have to edit the file ~/.kde/share/apps...  Not being a Unix 
> nerd, may I pray ask - where and how do I find this file, and with what 
> do I edit it?

Edit /usr/share/apps/kstars/Cities.dat with your favourite
text-editor. For example, you could just open that file with kwrite.

You will find an entry corresponding to Windhoek (I notice that there
are two differing entries). Just correct that entry (and delete the
wrong entries) and it should become permanently correct.

Once you are done with making this correction on your system, just
attach that file and mail it to the list, so that we can make your
correction appear in future versions of KStars.

> I can't help comparing this programme with the easy to use, intuitive 
> and cheap windows programme Red Shift......

Well, I've seen RedShift long back, and yes - and that was pretty
intuitive. Unfortunately, we lack a strong developer force to produce
that kind of work. Any help in making KStars better is always welcome.

Regards
Akarsh