[Marble-devel] Ideas for more tasks

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi,

Here are a few more ideas for possible tasks:

Edit Maps Panel:
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- Editing node positions: Currently when adding polygons or paths the associated dialog displays the nodes coordinates in the nodes tab. It would be nice if the coordinate position of those nodes could be changed from within the nodes tab. The challenge there would be how to deal with the different notations that we allow for (DMS, Decimal, ...). One possibility would be to have the text value turn into a set of spinboxes once an entry gets selected. Or the currently selected items is shown on top of the list as a regular EditLatLonWidget where it could get edited then.

- Allow for draggable resizing of GroundOverlays: Currently it's only possible to specify the position and extent of a GroundOverlay via the associated dialog box. It would be nice if handles would be added to the corners and on the sides that would allow for resizing the GroundOverlay interactively. 

- Support for GroundOverlay Dialog in Files Panel: If you Right-Click on a GeoDataPlacemark entry in the "Files" Panel then you get a "View Properties" menu entry. Clicking it will bring up the "Edit Placemark Dialog" in Read-Only mode. It would be nice if the same would happen when clicking a GeoDataGroundOverlay (After it has been created e.g. via the Edit Maps Panel) 


Record Movie:
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- Fix "Record Movie" feature. The feature provided "Edit -> Record Movie" has certainly got potential for further bugfixes and improvements. Try it yyourself and check what could be improved.

Tour Panel: 
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- It would be nice if it was possible inside a Tour to change the map theme or projection. This would allow for further automation of Marble via the Tour Feature. However this would most certainly require some "custom Marble KML tag". One of the challenges with this task would be to find some way to implement this so that e.g.  http://www.kmlvalidator.com/home.htm still considers the resulting KML code valid.

If you want to work on one of these tasks please just speak up :-)