Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Robert Norris writes: > A deeper question is how maps.xml extension file is distributed, since > Viking doesn't directly control this, although the data/maps.xml is > designed to be installed into /usr/share/viking or whatever the path > is. I don't follow "doesn't directly control this". It s

Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-22 Thread Robert Norris
Try again as my message seems blank! > From: g...@ir.bbn.com > To: matthewha...@zoho.com > CC: rw_nor...@hotmail.com; viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features > Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:04:39 -0400 > > > My leaning is

Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-22 Thread Robert Norris
> From: g...@ir.bbn.com > To: matthewha...@zoho.com > CC: rw_nor...@hotmail.com; viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features > Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:04:39 -0400 > > > My leaning is that while having a tile sources list on

Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-21 Thread Robert Norris
> > Thanks for the response! Apologies for being one of those people who don't > RTFM! I don't really expect many people to read the fine manual. Being a developer, you can of course read the fine source ;) I expect most people to learn of these things by trail and error.   >> Otherwise window l

Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-21 Thread Greg Troxel
My leaning is that while having a tile sources list on the wiki is great, the builtin set should be curated to be a good set for most people. So that definitely means pruning ones that don't work, but also being judicious about what to add. It might be reasonable to have the 5 layers that openst

Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Hague
Thanks for the response! Apologies for being one of those people who don't RTFM! > > + Show all / hide all &c. for map layers / sub-layers. > > ? > There > already are Show All/Hide All/Toggle options for any layers within an > Aggregate layer. (Right click on it -> Visibility -> ...) I d

Re: [Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-20 Thread Robert Norris
> Hey, > > I've been building up a wish-list of minor tweaks to make to Viking. These > are all changes i more or less propose to make myself, but wanted to make sure > there were no major objections &c. > > + Add an alpha component to the track/route colour

[Viking-devel] Proposed Minor Features

2014-03-20 Thread Matthew Hague
Hey, I've been building up a wish-list of minor tweaks to make to Viking. These are all changes i more or less propose to make myself, but wanted to make sure there were no major objections &c. + Add an alpha component to the track/route colouring. + Show all / hide all &c. for map laye