Proposals:Landscape Manager plug-in

DRAFT - TO BE EXPANDED

A plug-in that allows manipulating Stellarium landscapes from within Stellarium itself.

For a start, it should allow installing landscapes from zip files that have been downloaded to the desktop or somewhere else.

• Un-compress archives (DONE)
• Recognise landscape format (partially DONE), show message if invalid
• Present an option to copy to user or main data folder
  • User friendly interface explaining the difference
  • Warning if the operation requires administrator rights
• [Later] Detect 0.9-series landscape description format and suggest updating it to 0.10-series format (replace \n with <br/>, etc)

It should also offer the operation of removing installed landscapes. (DONE)

• Recognise the original ones and prevent their deletion? (DONE)

Later: creating landscapes (not the images, only the configuration file + folder package):

• Choose landscape type
• Browse for images
• Edit landscape name and description
• Easy landscape orientation (Stellarium's current landscape engine allows reloading landscapes on-the-run)
• Easy creation of "custom horizon" landscapes if this landscape type gets implemented

Required skills

• text file manipulation
• GUI design (please separate the GUI from the code that does the work - for example, please don't include the code for moving files in the class that provides the window)

Blueprints

• Landscape manager plug-in
• Landscape creator plug-in (depends on the above blueprint)

Implementations

Add/Remove Landscapes plug-in

User:Daggerstab has written a simple plug-in implementing the two basic management features: installing a landscape from an archive and removing installed landscapes. The code is available here: http://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/stellarium/trunk/extmodules/AddRemoveLandscapes/