Object info formatting

[Alexander Wolf]

Original feature request and discussion: https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/discussion/278769/thread/56d320de/

Is it possible to edit the way object information is displayed? Right now it's one big clump of characters - while it admittedly occupies the least space and thusly obscures the least of the graphic output, it can be a bit hard to read, especially when comparing multiple objects' info.
Specifically, I would like to be able to change the order of the pieces of data, insert newlines to create "groups", insert spaces and/or tabs to line things up for better readability, and possibly tweak some unit names (for instance, instead of "Light Years" I'd just prefer "ly").

Is any of these possible, and/or considered for inclusion in the future?

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Short resume from discussion:
1) Tweaking order of the info blocks
2) Grouping info blocks (empty line as separator of the blocks)
3) Contrast (readable) of the text in the info blocks on the sky

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

ad (3) Some underlying visual "shadow effect" to encrease contrast of blue letters in blue daylight sky? Maybe Qt has this already?

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Point 3 is done at revision 6996 (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/6996).

Point 2 is partially done at revision 6997 (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/6997)

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Tweaking of order and grouping of the info blocks maybe will be implemented in the future. Other items from request was implemented in version 0.13.1.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

I guess this is final fix: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/9625