A system that should save the add-on profile

To allow a simple and multiple add-on enable/disable some kind of profile management is requested.

Description:

Having the on the fly add-on management (see FR17) should be easy to implement a system that saves the different add-on scenarios enabling and disabling automatically a set of files.

Using this Celestia add-on profile manager the users could “Add”, ”Edit” or ”Remove” multiple profiles. Under each profile the user can select, from the list of the registered add-ons (see  FR16)  which are the ones that has to be loaded at start-up.

Other options could be included, for example a particular start script should be specified for every profile.

Using these feature one could easily and quickly run Celestia in any realistic or fantasy configuration with any combination of add-ons, as desired.

The user should not have to rename anything. Celestia should ignore any unselected add-ons and follow any other configuration for the currently chosen profile.

If possible, Celestia could start with a dialogue that allows the user to select a profile from a list. Some users may prefer Celestia to start without a dialogue and to just load a default profile, and then make changes, when wanted, through the configuration dialogue at runtime.

The profile configuration would have a “Set as default” button to (obviously) set the currently selected profile as the default. The start-up dialogue could possibly be included with the user having the option of enabling or disabling it, Celestia then loading the default profile when it is disabled.

Another idea would be to use command line parameters to run Celestia with any saved profile. The user could then have a shortcut for each profile.

Required/Suggested:

  FR15 Add-On identification;

  FR16 Add-On registration.

  FR18 Add-On repository

Further related improvements:

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Related Newsgroup Threads:

  Add-On Manager Proposal

Reference Celestia Version:

  1.3.0

Status:

  (17-08-03) Submitted to forum attention.

  (24-08-03) Waiting.

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  Paolo Angeli.

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