Planet orbits not displayed according to settings

[Nicolas Martignoni]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Stellarium
2. Open View panel (F4)
3. Note the settings of options "Show planet orbit" (unchecked), "Show orbit for selected planet" (checked) and "Show trail only for selected planet" (checked). If these are not your startup settings, change accordingly, save and restart Stellarium
4. Toggle (check/uncheck) option "Show planet orbit"
5. Observe that the orbits of all planets are displayed/not displayed according to the setting (correct behavior)
6. Now select a planet, e.g. Mars
7. Observe that the orbit of Mars is displayed and other orbits are hidden (correct behavior)
8. Unselect the planet Mars (ctrl-click or right-click)
9. Observe that nothing changes, i.e. Mars orbit is displayed, but other orbits remain hidden (incorrect)
10. Select the Sun
11. Observe that all orbits are now displayed

Expected behavior:

When no planet is selected, all orbits should be visible.

Note: Tested on OS X, Stellarium 0.15.0, freshly compiled by myself.

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

Not mac specific, also on WIndows. :-(

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

I'm sorry, but same behaviour was in series 0.13, in series 0.12, in series 0.11 and in series 0.10.

[Nicolas Martignoni (nicolas-martignoni)]

OK, I didn't test it thoroughly before finding the other "orbits" bugs and didn't know it was the intended behavior.

It's indeed an opinion, but the current behavior seems strange, especially when a planet is under the horizon (non visible), but still in the viewport, with its orbit displayed, then the orbit suddenly disappears (because it goes unnoticed out of the viewport) and one doesn't understand why.

But I can live with it :-)

[Nicolas Martignoni (nicolas-martignoni)]

Sorry for the spam: comment #3 above was for issue #1509674. IMHO this current issue is definitely not an opinion.

Alex: are you sure that this is the normal behavior ? i.e. when no planet is selected AND option "Show planet orbit" checked, then only last selected planet orbit is displayed ? (see steps 8 and 9).

It seems to me really a bug and not an opinion.

[Nicolas Martignoni (nicolas-martignoni)]

Still here after fix for #1509674 (tested on OS X).

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 8225 of the trunk branch of Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/8225

[Nicolas Martignoni (nicolas-martignoni)]

Tested. Works as described.

Many thanks for the fix :-)