[Kstars-devel] OpenGL branch merged!

[Akarsh Simha]

Hi

After much suffering, mostly because I didn't RTFM, the OpenGL branch
is merged into trunk, in working shape. I'm just doing the last test,
to see if I can re-checkout the branch and build it, to ensure that no
files are missing on trunk. Sorry for all those false commits. Wasn't
doing the right thing.

The first thing that you'll notice after you've successfully gotten
the extra dependencies and built KStars, is that there's no Skymap!
The reason for this is a Qt bug (IIRC), wherein widget overlays don't
work as they are advertised. Go to the menu and turn off the InfoBoxes
and voila!

You'll see a Skymap. The first good thing you'll notice about the
skymap, is that it's a lot faster with GL. The next thing you'll
notice (if you run it during day) is that the Sun is drawn as a blue
star :D.

There are quite a lot of bugs here. I hope team KStars finds some time
to deal with those bugs and swat them dead before KDE 4.6 release; or
we must be prepared to hear a lot of complaints from our users!
Luckily for me, this semester at grad school isn't very bad, so I
should at least find enough time to merge in the star-hopping feature
that I bragged about here two days ago.

I invite everyone who has some time to spare on this mailing list, to
shun FUD and start contributing whatever is possible, at least during
this critical phase, until we get into good shape for KDE 4.6.

Regards
Akarsh