From kde-core-devel Wed May 09 00:18:38 2007 From: Torsten Rahn Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:18:38 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Marble in kdereview Message-Id: <200705090218.38414.torsten.rahn () credativ ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=117866997315888 Hi Alex, On Tuesday 08 May 2007 19:19:53 Alex Merry wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Torsten Rahn wrote: > > Hi everyone, > Just a couple of questions (apologies if you've already answered them - > the acronyms are confusing): > * are there plans to have (the ability to get) better resolution "fill" > at higher zooms? Yes. Partially (in terms of textures) that's what the "Automatic tile downloading (which is close to be done)" part of the TODO was about. Don't expect wonders though - you won't be able to spot your house any time soon. However as you might have noticed that's not Marble's ultimate goal :-) See the FAQ in the docs for more info. > * are there plans to have (the ability to get) more detailed info about > smaller towns/villages etc? Yes. You might have noticed that there is very basic Wikipedia support there already. In the future there are plans to create a "Marble Almanach" which will contain a small database of offline data (Probably based on the Qt4 based Wikipedia Offline Reader). > I also notice that there's no "short descriptions" given for (most? > any?) of the towns/cities. Try Mountains and the Poles ;-) Seriously, I'll try to find a better solution for those boxes in case they are empty. > And the tabs on the left have no labels - > it was a while before I noticed the button at the bottom, and I had no > idea what to expect when I clicked it. Will be fixed with my next commit in a few minutes. > I can imagine this would be a very cool way to select "where I am" when > setting up KDE, for things like timezone stuff. That's indeed the plan. See my blogs about Marble at http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2412 and of course the MANIFESTO document in the source tree. I actually have some free timezone vector data available. However it will take some time to adjust the vector backend to display it properly. Torsten > Alex -- Torsten Rahn Tel.: +49 (0)21 61 / 46 43-0 credativ GmbH, HRB Düren 4052 Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Str. 13, 52428 Jülich Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz