[Kstars-devel] GSoC 2011 project

[Rafal Kulaga]

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
>