Hi
Key stroke (key bindings) are very useful. particularly on lap tops although
not so important on desktops where a mouse works well.
The biggest problems we have with key bindings is twofold, the number with
duplicate functions and the use of non USA keyboards. Check through the help
file for the current key bindings for those that are already in use before
commiting new ones
Barry Gerdes
Beaumont Hills Observatory
S 33' 41' 44" E 150' 56' 32"
From: edtak...@cox.net
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:46:55 -0400
To: stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Re 2: New Idea: DSO viewing options
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, <edtak...@cox.net> 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 <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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