Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather scenarios / local weather

[Thorsten R. <tho...@sc...>]

> I would say the current GUI is invisible, since I didn’t even know
> it existed, or that I should look at it when enabling AW :)
> 
> Long-long term I plan to move (nearly) all settings under a single
> searchable dialog, but it would be good to find an interim way to
> increase the visibility of the AW dialog.
> 
> Could we make a button in the ‘rendering settings’ dialog to open
> the AW one, if AW is enabled? I.e add an entry saying:
> 
>  'Advanced weather is enabled, please check visibility and cloud
> settings [here]’
> 
> (or whatever wording people prefer…)

Well - did I mention that I grudgingly went along with the weather 
dialog merge?

Anyway - the dialog is *pretty* important unless you want to be stuck 
with a 20 km (?) visibility cap and items like the atmosphere polution 
where 'banished' there on the grounds that 'one expects them to find 
them under weather settings'.

But while there's some overlap with rendering, most of the settings 
really are primarily weather-related. So... I guess by default BW is 
active? Would it make sense to have a pop-up offering to configure AW in 
detail every time AW is selected as the weather engine (possibly this 
would not be too intrusive, as you'd typically do that once and then 
mostly remain with the selected engine)?

I guess once you've seen the dialog and what it does, you tend to look 
for it again.

(Generally I guess I'm not really good at these things because I'm the 
type of user who just goes trying every menu entry just to see what is 
available...)

* Thorsten