Hi Thomas and Brian,
I think the way to do this one, as well as make the user interface both more
facile and intuitive, is with drop-down menus.
I put a draft of my idea at takken.us/stellarium, but need to do more to
explain it.
I suggest that the present slide bars are an encumbrance for the user.
Ed Takken
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Thomas Morris wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Perhaps this could be implemented as a plug-in? ("extended DSO
> controls" or something like that). Personally I would like some
> extended controls particularly for making full use of the new NGC data
> catalogue. (Galaxy display based on surface brightness for example,
> which would certainly be useful for objects at low altitude.)
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
> On 19 March 2012 17:03, Bogdan Marinov <daggers...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:48 AM, bdwashbu <bdwas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Cool!
>>>
>>> I have a prototype image here:
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81471534@N00/6848489598/lightbox/
>>
>> Oh, my, more interface clutter. While users have requested a way to
>> select which categories of DSOs are displayed, I think that a separate
>> slider for each is overkill.
>>
>> Also, a comment on a previous question of yours:
>>
>> On 18 March 2012 14:15, bdwashbu <bdwas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I also think that the sliders should be ticked and a label show their
>>> current value, because I'm not even sure what their value currently
>>> represents. (I assume apparent magnitude)
>>
>> The sliders are deliberately unitless and don't represent apparent
>> magnitude. Instead, they control the number of objects shown on the
>> screen with a somewhat unclear formula which includes apparent
>> magnitude and dynamic eye adaptation.
>>
>> Please also have in mind that one of the reasons Stellarium is popular
>> with educators and people who are total beginners in astronomy is the
>> simplicity of its interface. New features should be carefully
>> designed. Just slapping hack over hack as has been the tendency
>> recently won't lead to anything good. We already kicked out the
>> planetarium users, let's not alienate more groups.
>>
>> Bogdan
>>
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