Hi stellarium devs! I am a newcomer to stellarium, but in my short time using it have found it an incredibly useful aid to amateur astronomy.
One thing that I noticed was missing was the LogBook plugin. This would be a useful addition to the program. My needs are simpler than the ambition for the LogBook. I mostly need something that I can keep track of what I have observed and when (with accompanying notes), but the more flexibility the better, of course. The case for keeping logs inside instead of outside of Stellarium is that, at least in theory, I can link my observations to the objects in the celestial database(s). Looking at the wiki and old forum posts it appears the current plugin is not included in the standard binary (at least on Ubuntu 11.10). This prompted a few questions: 1/ Is the LogBook usable in its present state? If not, what is missing? 2/ How do I build the plugin. I built stellarium from bzr trunk, but noticed that the LogBook plugin and a couple of others are not built by default. I assume this is just a matter of specifying some flags for cmake/make 3/ Would it be useful to the project for me to contribute some code to that plugin? I haven't used Qt before, but I do have experience with C++, various versions of SQL, and other GUI toolkits (Gtk+, wxWidgets). There will be a learning curve, but not insurmountable I think. Thanks, dm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
