Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC Enquiry

2012-03-18 Thread Georg Zotti
On So, 18.03.2012, 10:57, Bogdan Marinov wrote: >> Depends also on what are the actual design and objectives. Creating a basic feature will require only learning a bit of Qt, but I don't think we should waste GSOC's resources on a glorified "open file" dialog window... I fully agree here. I think

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC Enquiry

2012-03-18 Thread Matthew Gates
The Landscape downloader is probably a better thing to look at than the solar system editor. I also agree that the blueprint is somewhat vague and not really suitable as a spec for a GSoC project. Nor was this particular blueprint intended as such - I simply wrote some ideas which came into my he

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC Enquiry

2012-03-18 Thread Bogdan Marinov
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bogdan Marinov wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Matthew Gates wrote: >> Some parts of this blueprint have been written already (e.g. solar >> system editor plugin), but are spread around the app a little.  Bogdan >> might have some useful input about tha

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC Enquiry

2012-03-18 Thread Bogdan Marinov
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Matthew Gates wrote: >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/stellarium/+spec/add-on-manager >> Could you provide me with some more information about it ? > > If you know about the firefox add-on manager, that's the basic > concept.  An in-application tool for searchin

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC Enquiry

2012-03-17 Thread Matthew Gates
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/stellarium/+spec/add-on-manager > Could you provide me with some more information about it ? If you know about the firefox add-on manager, that's the basic concept. An in-application tool for searching for, downloading, installing and uninstalling plugins, langs

[Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC Enquiry

2012-03-17 Thread Aaron Kalair
Hi, I'm interested in working with Stellarium as part of GSoC 2012. I like the look of this project: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/stellarium/+spec/add-on-manager Could you provide me with some more information about it ? How difficult do you think it will be to implement, and what prerequisi