[Marble-devel] Marble runners as Plasma runners (was: Re: Showing/editing the coord in bookmark editor; GeoDataCoordinates::fromString vs. toString; coordinates edit widget)

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi,

Lundi, le 12 septembre 2011, à 07:53, vous avez écrit:
> 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.

Which reminds me of my typical usecase with Marble, that could get an improved 
workflow:
getting an address (or even some geo coordinates like happened to me) from 
someone/somewhere and the need/wish to look it up.

Has anybody ever tried/worked on integrating the Marble runners with the 
Plasma runners? So if you enter something to the Plasma thingie which looks 
like an address or coordinates you get the option to start a marble instance 
and get the marble Search field filled with the data and the search executed 
already? Or have also the geo bookmarks matched and automatically shown up in 
a new/running marble instance?

Would be interested to give that a try, once I added the notation modes to 
LatLonEdit and fixed the parser to also read floating point values.

Cheers
Friedrich