Planet trails are displayed for invisible bodies

[Bogdan Marinov]

Planet trails are displayed for bodies that are not visible at the current zoom level (e.g. asteroids). Is this deliberate? It may be confusing for some users.

Example from the Feedback forum:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/forums/forum/278769/topic/4360224

I may be partially responsible for that, as the new classes for asteroids and comets derived from the Planet class return different object type names and this breaks some of the code (e.g. no selection marker is displayed for comets and asteroids).

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 5137 of the trunk branch in Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/5137

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

I have reverted the proposed fix:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/5138

It doesn't fix the bug: I was talking about a completely different feature: planet *trails*, not planet orbits.
It introduces a new bug: It ignores user settings on orbits, showing orbit lines for visible bodies all the time. This will also cause problems with the Solar System Observer view...

As the question in the bug report suggests, the behaviour of trails (or orbit lines) is a design decision and should be discussed before being changed.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

The behaviour of rendering of planet trails is changed in version 0.15. Please check any of weekly packages.