Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Extending the GUI

[Johan M. <joh...@gm...>]

December is a quiet month for me, I'm taking some time off of work, which
means I have time to work on Stellarium.  I'll get back to this after the
1st of december.
Johan
2008/11/22 Matthew Gates <mat...@gm...>

>  Hello all,
>
> There are lots of new features which need to have things added to the GUI,
> and we are running out of space to put them with the current design. With
> 0.10.0 we had a fairly clean split between the view and config dialogs but
> if we just insert new features where they fit, it will become very messy.
>
> Now we have some extra GUI elements, and they have been bolted on in places
> which might not be ideal, and we need more, as yet undeveloped GUI parts,
> specifically:
>
> + Scripting tab (in config window of SVN build)
>
> + Catalogue download tool
>
> + Plugin management GUI (choose which plugins to load at start, start/stop
> plugins at runtime)
>
> + Telescope configuration in GUI.
>
> I would like your opinions on how best to arrange the GUI with these new
> elements.
>
> I would like to suggest two possible approaches, which might work together
> or we could use just one of them:
>
> 1. Add tabs to the location window. It's a big window, so we can get quite
> a lot of stuff done there. At present the location window is typically used
> only once to configure the location. This is a configuration task, so it
> makes some sense to me to move the other configuration GUI elements into
> this dialog.
>
> 2. Have a new dialog, "Tools" which would have the scripting tab, plugin
> management, catalogue/extension downloading tool. This would free up the
> config tab for adding the telescope manager.
>
> In any case, we need to fix the CSS for tab scroll buttons. You can see
> them getting enabled when you use some languages, as soon as the width of
> the tab labels exceeds the width of a dialog. Right now they look like
> windows buttons, and do no follow the theme properly. They are also an
> unappealing shape.
>
> Matthew
>
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