[Kstars-devel] GSoC 2011 project

[Bruce Harding]

Rafal,

I've taken a screen shoot of the boxes and lines I'm referring to (see 
attached).  These 3Dish lines need to be solid, but keep at the same width as 
I think that would make them for distinct at night.

What every method you gentleman choose to use to import the observing list 
into the printing wizard would be great by me.  I might suggest that you 
change the name of the printing wizard to something else.  It really does not 
describe what this function does and best belongs in the Tools section of the 
menu bar.  How about Visual Observers Planner or Visual Observers Template or 
Visual Observer Logs or maybe you will come up with something better.

One day I hope to give a talk at the Royal Astronomy Society of Canada (Ottawa 
Chapter) about this software.  But we have a bit to go before this software 
will pass the mark, for such a critical group of men and women.

-- 
Bruce Harding
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Member: IEEE, SPIE, IACR


On September 29, 2012 08:00:02 PM Rafal Kulaga wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Sorry for late response.
> 
> >> I've got one thing I'd like changed and one thing added.  I would like
> >> see the border made in to full (thinkish) lines as the thinner double
> >> lines are hard to see in the dark.
> 
> Which lines do you mean? Anyway, it sounds like a quick fix.
> 
> >> I would like to see the option to import the observation list.
> 
> Very nice feature indeed. Will work on that in free time - not much of
> that recently, though.
> 
> > Yes, I agree. The observing list export is my major "want to see" feature
> > in the printing section of KStars. I did give it a thought some day.
> > Given how complicated our code is getting, I almost think the right way
> > to handle this is using a DBus-based script. I almost think that many of
> > these features should start having script implementations.
> 
> Why would you want to use DBus for that? I mean, wouldn't it be an overkill?
> > It might be worth thinking of scripts as projects for Google Code-In 2012.
> > Unfortunately, I expect to have very little time till (American)
> > Thanksgiving, after which I should be able to do some GCI 2012 mentoring
> > as
> > well. Let's see how it goes.
> 
> I should have enough time to mentor some projects in GCI 2012.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rafal
> 
> 2012/9/24 Akarsh Simha <asimha at physics.utexas.edu>:
> > Quoting Bruce <lists at faintfuzzies.ca>:
> >> So I've had lost of chances to use the template for observing this summer
> >> and
> >> fall.  I've got one thing I'd like changed and one thing added.  I would
> >> like
> >> see the border made in to full (thinkish) lines as the thinner double
> >> lines
> >> are hard to see in the dark.  I would like to see the option to import
> >> the
> >> observation list.  I assume that lots of people like me use the
> >> observation
> >> list as a method to decide what to observe any given night.  Having this
> >> option would prevent me from have to re-enter each object a second time
> >> to
> >> print out the template.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for this, it has been a very useful tool for my.  I not keep a
> >> binder
> >> with me that goes out on every observing session.
> > 
> > Hi Bruce
> > 
> > Yes, I agree. The observing list export is my major "want to see" feature
> > in the printing section of KStars. I did give it a thought some day.
> > Given how complicated our code is getting, I almost think the right way
> > to handle this is using a DBus-based script. I almost think that many of
> > these features should start having script implementations.
> > 
> > However, our scripting interface seems broken and very little testing has
> > gone into it. I need to try and get it to work and see if there's a way to
> > script this.
> > 
> > I wonder if Rafal has any thoughts / ideas on this.
> > 
> > It might be worth thinking of scripts as projects for Google Code-In 2012.
> > Unfortunately, I expect to have very little time till (American)
> > Thanksgiving, after which I should be able to do some GCI 2012 mentoring
> > as
> > well. Let's see how it goes.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Akarsh
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