Re: [Xplanet-development] Opinions and feature requests to 1.*

[Stephan S. <nur...@gm...>]

Hi!

Funny, your response was much faster than the return of my mail via
the list.

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:57:03AM -0800, Hari Nair wrote:
> > Now I'm only missing a few features like
> > - A config variable in the global section where I can add the maps
> > I like to see (e.g.  swap_through_section=3Dearth,earth1,mars,luna)
> > and a time variable (e.g. swap_after_seconds=3D120), so after 120
> > seconds the next map would be displayed, and I could view
> > different planets or different markers for the planet with
> > automatic rotation.
> This sounds like it would be a book-keeping
> headache.  Why not use the -pre/-post command
> options to set links to the image files you want?

I'm not sure that this will work. If you wish to change between a
saturn image and an earth image together with different marker files
(maybe one with places, one with weather data and earthquake data),
the scripts in the pre/post command had to run the whole time in the
background waiting for there time to change links.
And you had to copy all global images to your home directory, because
you can't link in /usr/share as user.

> > - The projection option should be available in
> > the config files, too.
> The purpose of the config file is to specify
> options that can vary from planet to planet.  The
> projection is a property of the whole image, not
> of any one planet, which is why it needs to be
> specified on the command line.

It makes sense together with my feature wish above, because then you
could change the projection for different maps, when xplanet switches
between them (e.g. saturn as seen from above and earth with
rectangular projection).

> > - The lines in the marker file should have the possibility to have
> > more than one align command (e.g. align=3Dabove{Algiers,
> > color=3Dcoral3}, align=3Dbelow{%H:%M %Z, color=3DDarkGoldenrod}).
> Why not specify the marker twice?=20

Yes, this works, too. So you can skip my last wish. ;-)

Shade and sweet water!

	Stephan

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