Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download / built-in terrasync

[HB-GRAL <fli...@sa...>]

Am 13.06.11 21:50, schrieb ThorstenB:
> Hi,
>
> the final GUI bits for a new feature are now in fgdata - the last
> feature addition for the 2.4 release from my part... You can
> download/update scenery directly from FlightGear now (main menu:
> Environment =>  Scenery). Credit for the idea goes to James - bugs are
> mine ;-).
>
> It provides built-in terrasync support - with some advantages:

Hi Thorsten

Thank you (and others) for this <Heads up>. I have some question about 
the new feature:

>
> * Configuration requires a scenery target directory only (your
> "terrasync" directory) and a checkbox to enable. For now, you'll also
> need to provide the terrasync directory as part of your --fg-scenery
> paths (otherwise you won't see downloaded scenery).

What is about separating default scenery path and synced scenery path to 
different path command line options ? Something like fg-scenery=/Scenery 
and custom-scenery=/terrasyncdir ?

I think it is much easier and almost self-explaining for some users to 
set paths only once and that there are less possibilites to set paths 
wrong. You set custom-scenery and you can be sure that a) order of paths 
is correct for scenery "fallback" and b) built-in or external terrasync 
takes the same path and there is only one place to set paths. Or do I 
miss something here?

Another small problem on OSX remains with terrasync for me. Default path 
(i.e. when you do not set a path at all, but starting terrasync) a 
terrasyncdir data directory is created in the MacOS binaries folder in 
the bundle, because this is root here now. This is a "hidden" place for 
OSX users, only more or less experienced OSX people know how to "open" a 
bundle, or how to find it (i.e. you can not find it with common search 
tools on OSX). Most OSX users do not know how to set paths to a data 
folder in a bundle.

Setting paths wrong (or left blank) for terrasync on OSX will end up 
with "filling" the application bundle with tons of data, in the "wrong" 
directory anyway. Maybe default terrayncdir, at least for OSX, should be 
created somewhere else, where users can find it (for the FGx bundle I 
put it here by default "/Documents/TerrasyncScenery", far from saying 
this is the only right location).

Cheers, Yves