Santosh wrote in Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:12 pm:I wouldn't use any frontend if Flightgear directly provided a GUI dialogue for choosing Aircrafts, just like it does for Airports.
This is something that people are working on, but it touches tons of long-standing issues, so while some of us would like to see it in 3.0, it seems more like to be in 3.2+ - but developers are aware of these issues, and the plethora of GUI frontends that we have for these reasons - see this recent comment:
Subject: 2.12 on Mac OSX 10.8.4zakalawe wrote:Part of the issue is many of the launcher features will become less important when we update the aircraft management system, since there will likely be an in-sim GUI (using the Canvas) to install and select aircraft, so I haven't wanted to invest time on the equivalent features in the Mac launcher.
However, keep in mind that there's only a single guy working on this at the moment (who's usually already juggling 70% of other core development stuff going on) - but thanks to Tom's canvas system, the GUI is becoming flexible enough to make all this possible, without the same guy having to rewrite the GUI too