Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather scenarios - add ICAO standard

[Emilian H. <emi...@gm...>]

On Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:05:55 EEST Thorsten Renk wrote:
> > Well, we can do lots with the command line, - if you can
> > remember/research
> > what to type ;)
> > 
> > Simply adding a new weather scenario makes it accessible from the
> > launcher
> > and the normal weather menu.
> > 
> > My request stands.
> 
> Yes - and if you develop aircraft and want to go through standardized
> tests, you know all you need to come up with e.g. batch startup files -
> and researching how something works from the commandline is probably
> your smallest problem.
> 
> Accessibility is primarily for people who don't know all of this. And
> real-estate in the weather scenario menu is precious because it fills up
> rapidly to the point of sticking outside the screen on small displays (I
> have the problem already running FG in windowed mode for developing) -
> for that very reason I have not added a number of existing and
> interesting AW-supported weather scenarios to the GUI.
> 
> So my objection stands.
> 
> * Thorsten

Not every person that develops/might develop/tests aircraft is friends with 
the command line, and having CLI skills and on top of that having knowledge of 
obscure Flightgear CLI flags to be able to work on/test aircraft seems an 
unreasonable requirement to me.

(On the obscure features / command line side of things, many many moons ago 
there used to be that setting the metar string to NIL would give you standard 
atmosphere, but that isn't the case anymore.)

On the other hand, maybe some of the other weather scenarios could do with 
some pruning, if the length of the scenario dropdown is an issue (or maybe the 
order might be revised)

Regards,
Emilian