FlightGear Forum
New launcher:
1) Asked me about data folder, I've guessed it is fgdata and I was right, please make it obvious in the launcher what folder should i select, this issue is probably related to my config and people who upgrade will see it too.
2) Default tab is always "settings", it does not remember my tab of choice. BTW: need more settings!
3) Aircraft tab: Height of the aircraft entries is fixed, but width of the image of an aircraft can be different and text is displaced a little to left or right, would be nice if pictures and text will be lined up/resized properly (height should be fixed as it is now).
4) I don't like Location tab at all (except runway selector - it is nice
). Partial search by ICAO is not working (like typing UK does not give me UKON, UKOO etc), I want to see my list of airports with descriptions like in old launcher, sortable. It was easy and nice in old launcher...5) When I exit from the game it won't go back to the launcher (kinda unusual)
In game:
6) My config from 3.4/3.5 was not loaded automatically by 3.6 so I've set up everything again (there was crash after exit with jetway errors, so I resetuped everything yet again because it lost my changes).
7) Red building bug is present (I've discussed it with Thorsten earlier): viewtopic.php?f=37&t=25472#p233349
If I change airport in game when in Cessna's cockpit it silently throws me in "walker mode" (no text balloon) with me standing higher than the plane, but it is OK after some moves.9) Cessna is very nice, it has much bigger CHECKLIST with lots of different modes, when I open menu with them (list of entries like Before starting, Take off etc) it is too big for my 19" 5:4 (which has huge height already), it would be nice to have arrows to move from one checklist to another without that troublesome menu selection.
10) "Use point sprites for runway lights" - please make it automatic, if it is not working properly on ATI cards turn it off automatically! (please! on/off/auto)
11) When I switch with alt+tab between simulator and other programs flightgear will change its mouse behaviour (TAB key). Really annoying.
12) Is that popup in the middle of the screen about "cycling mouse behaviour" is really necessary? How i suppose to fly with it blocking my view!? Could you move it somewhere else? or disable at all?
13) Some airplanes will not work yet (like 707).
So far I like it, but those issues should be mitigated. Will continue to test it some more. I will post updates here.
No such issue in 3.4
, need Ctrl-V to mitigate this problem.
Basically you can add stuff to a separate configuration file that overrides "preferences.xml" when included using the option "--config=<Path to you config file>/<Your config file>.xml". That way you will only have have to makes small changes for things not compatible between the versions.
Note though that you can move around the dialog by holding the left mouse button over most parts of the dialog and drag it to where you want it. Unfortunately it seems that PUIs (the rather old user interface library's) widgets do not make use of the scroll wheel.
