Re: [Celestia-developers] Changes for 1.5.0pre5

[Fridger S. <fri...@de...>]

Good...

Since many weeks I have assigned a bug report to Christophe in the SF
bug tracker, which is being overlooked. Celestia KDE does not save the
star type after leaving Celestia! It works fine in Celestia-gtk and in
Celestia-gnome. This was my first bug tracker report, yet it is ignored,
nevertheless ;-). I am now demotivated to use the bug tracker...ahem

Bye Fridger



Chris Laurel wrote:
> I'd like to build a 1.5.0pre5 release. Because of the dwindling number
> of items that need to be completed for 1.5.0, I think this should be the
> last *planned* prerelease before a 1.5.0 release candidate. Here are the
> changes that I've noted since 1.5.0pre4:
> 
> KDE:
> * Added new marker shapes to popup menu
> * Fixed cel URL handler to avoid opening of empty tab in Konqueror
> * Fixed window being resized when URL is activated by another app
> * CelestialBrowser improvements:
>   - Show satellites of satellites
>   - Don't display barycenters and invisible objects
>   - Added new body classifications: small body and dwarf planet
> * Filtered invisible objects and barycenters from popup menu
> 
> Windows:
> * Fixed bug in popup menu and solar system browser with objects with empty
>   name strings
> * Fixed bug in 'Set current time' action for Windows Set Time dialog; UTC to
>   TDB correction was not being applied.
> 
> Mac:
> * Added more info to OpenGL Info window
> * Added satellites submenu to context menu
> 
> * Added Julian date setting to Set Time dialog
> * Bound Shift+K and Shift+L key combinations to adjust time by factor of 2
> * Enabled relative paths for InfoURLs
> * Fixed pause behavior with cel URLs and bookmarks (non-Windows platforms)
> * Include star system barycenters in cel URL paths
> * New extrasolar planets: OGLE-TR-182 b, WASP-3 b, 55 Cnc f, Lupus-TR-3 b,
>   OGLE-TR-211 b, HD 156846 b, HD 4113 b, Kap CrB b, GD 66 b
> * Brightened grid and constellation border colors
> * Fixed incorrect assert in Windows fullscreen mode selection (caused
> app crash
>   when switching to fullscreen mode.)
> * Switched to double precision arithmetic for orbits to avoid rendering
>   artifacts
> * Use cubic interpolation for orbits paths to eliminate sharp angles when
>   rendering them
> * Removed fractional part in the display of galaxy light gain
> * Fixed bug in calendar date calculation for negative Julian dates and
>   dates far in the past or future.
> * Changed quaternion slerp so shortest path is taken when interpolating
>   orientations. Prevents extra spinning when using SampledOrientatin.
> * Implemented SampledTrajectory, a new trajectory type similar to
>   SampledOrbit except with properties to control interpolation and
> precision.
> * Fixed bug with showing labels of objects with empty name strings
> * Replaced month number with name abbreviation in date display
> * Fixed inconsistent operation of mouse wheel reverse flag
> * Fixed some memory leaks
> * Fixed depth sorting of labels for solar system objects
> * Fixed broken shaders for atmospheres of planets orbiting multiple suns
> * Re-enabled stellar corona effect
>  Added capability to set default star textures via celestia.cfg
> * Switched to using different star textures for different spectral classes
> * Fixed frame related bug that caused a body to be positioned incorrectly
> when the star of its orbit frame didn't match the namespace root star.
> * Added RA/Dec to selection information (using observer centered coordinate
>  system)
> * Removed hardcoded limit on max number of nearby solar systems when
> rendering
>   (fixes a crashing bug.)
> * Added untranslated "Sun" name so that scripts and add-ons using that name
>   aren't broken on non-English versions
> * Added translation for "Milky Way"
> 
> Performance:
> * Rearranged some galaxy rendering code to increase performance
> * Added code to skip deep sky object octree traversal when all deep sky
> objects
>   are disabled.
> 
> Scripting:
> * Added POINT, LINES, and LINE_SMOOTH OpenGL enumerants
> 
> Internal:
> * Added code to skip rendering when viewer isn't moving and no changes
> have bee
>   made to render state (currently disabled)
> 
> 
> --Chris
> 
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