I should have added that keystroke equivalents give both
ease of learning for the beginner via the menus, and
good (perhaps the best possible) facile and fine-tuned control for the
experienced users and astronomers.
Ed.
PS: Just updated my notes at takken.us/stellarium. Hopefully they are more
readable now.
> Hi Tom,
> It is the keystroke equivalents that are magic.
> The menus after a while are just a help display.
> Sub-menus can be used to make things fit on a small display.
> Ed
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Thomas Morris wrote:
>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I'm not convinced that replacing the nebula sliders with a drop-down
>> menu would be more intuitive although I'm no expert on GUI design.
>> Bear in mind that non-numerical information needs translations unless
>> you use icons, potentially causing layout problems. Also drop-down
>> menus wouldn't fit on a small screen (e.g. smartphone).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
>>
>> On 19 March 2012 21:14, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:48 AM, bdwashbu <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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