On Monday, July 11, 2011 01:24:50 Akarsh Simha wrote: > "What's interesting" box, that would programmatically generate a list > of interesting objects that are visible from your location tonight > (taking into account a bunch of parameters including your equipment, > location, light pollution levels, level of experience), and give you > ample information on those objects in a side-bar. For instance, to the > beginner, it would tell him what planets are visible in the sky > presently. It's hard to explain in words, so here's an ugly mockup: > http://i.imgur.com/YkGY4.png
very nice idea indeed.. anyways.. under the assumption that a person is going to only read one of those at a time, it may make sense to show less information in that side panel than more. what might be very neat is a timeline-based set of actions, much as you have there (now, 3 hours from now, etc.) that just lists the names and perhaps the type of object (galaxy, planet, star). as a user i could then select on those items and it would center the star map on it, highligh it in some way and show me an informational box pointing to it with both the information and actions in it. that way one can quickly jump from item to item and see where it is on the map. this would also allow you to cut down your actions: slew map would go away, and the redundant "on <name of object>" would also go away. just my 0.02 ... i look forward to seeing this in kstars :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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