Norman Vine wrote: > But in any case I don't appreciate programs that automatically connect > to the NET and I still want to have the default behaviour NO > networking without explicit authorization !
That's a fair point, although as long as we aren't transmitting any data I don't see any ethical problems. Some users on per-minute dialup might not want FlightGear to fire up their modem. But certainly we want this to be as easy as possible. To us, it's "only" a major convenience. But to a casual user, it turns FlightGear from a bay-area only demo into a whole-world flight simulator. That's a huge win. So if it's not the raw default, it needs to be a trivially simple switch that any user can throw. I'd be happy with something like a "--auto-scenery" argument (or better yet, a runtime menu option). But having to run terragear manually and specify an atlas argument to fgfs is too much complexity for the casual downloader. These are the people that can most benefit from this feature; and they get a *lot* of benefit from it. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
