[Marble-devel] Showing/editing the coord in bookmark editor; GeoDataCoordinates::fromString vs. toString; coordinates edit widget

[Niko Sams]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:53, Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de> wrote:
> On Sunday, 11. September 2011 22:47:53 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>> I today got a geo coord from someone, so decided to enter it in Marble to
>> see where the point is... First I failed to find a way to do that. It
>> really is not obvious that one can enter a coord in the _Search_ field of
>> the Navigation tool (only found that when I came across the code of the
>> LatLonPlugin ;) ).
>
> Well, would you be surprised if I told you that you can do the same in Google
> Maps? And even in most other better maps applications?
>
> Even worse: You can search _anything_ in Marble's Search field. Even
> "www.kde.org" or the name of a geotagged Wikipedia article will create a
> result.
>
> It's similar to what plasma does with the runner concept.
>
I have to agree with Friedrich; it is not obvious that you can enter
anything there,
because: it more looks like a simple filter to the list below.

Niko