Adirondack, Andy74 and myself are just in the process of localizing the Celestia dokumentation to german. In this process we noted, that there are several commands in controls.txt (the helpfile!) missing. And even some plain errors.
Textfiles/Helpfiles:
Just some examples of what we found missing:
- Ctrl+G
- Ctrl+F
- Ctrl+O
- Shift+F10
- F11
- F12
- 0 (zero)
W : Toggle asteroid & comet labels
It must be:
W : Toggle asteroid labels
Shift+W : Toggle comet labels
Inconsistent was the use of:
r R: lower or raise texture resolution
Better would be:
R : lower texture resolution
Shift+R raise texture resolution
There is another file "KbdMouseJoyControls.txt" in the main Celestia folder. This file has a somewhat extended description of the commands in it. But that file hasn't been updated in over 2 years and is for Celestia 1.4.0.
So question is: Is anyone thinking about updating it? Should this file also be translated?
Scripts:
Why are the scripts "Demo.cel", "Guide.cel" and "Start.cel" in the Celestia main folder? It would be a lot more consistent to put them into the scripts folder.
Okay, "Start.cel" in the main folder makes some kind of sense, since it is always run on startup of Celestia.
Subsequently one could ask, if it would not also be better to move "Tour Guide ..." from Navigation to a fixed first point in the Scripts browser and make demo there a fixed second point.
Key remapping
Please remove the hardlink of "D" to run the demo script and attach it to "D"ecellerate.
Reason: On english keyboard layout you have the "A", "S" and "Z" key very near to each other, so it is easy to use them for "speed control".
On other keyboard layouts the "Z" key moves a lot further away. So by remapping the "D" key this would be an advantage on international keyboards. And it would even make sense in english:
- A: Accelerate
- S: Stop
- D: Decelerate
Best regards,
Guckytos[/b]
