[Xastir] Some observations with the recent CVS release

[William McKeehan]

My opinion...

I'd like to have toggle buttons to disable pop-ups for the different type of
pop-ups. I have one station that I would like to receive all pop-ups except
the emergency beacon one (I have one local station that runs frequently with a
status text of "OFFICIAL EMERGENCY STATION"). I have another that I run
full-time on another machine (disabled transmit, but listening) that I would
like to turn off all pop-ups.

I don't use the track feature very often (althought I would like to see it
work more like APRS+SA where you can track multiple stations), so I don't have
an opinion on the tracking staying from one session to another.

On Tue, September 5, 2006 8:39 am, Curt, WE7U said:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Andreas Junge, N6NU wrote:
>
>> 2) I really hate all the message pop-ups from my other SSID's. It
>> clutters the screen really bad.
>>
>> 3) Can the tracking of a station be made permanent? I auto start a
>> Xastir session on my server whenever it comes up. I do snapshots for my
>> website and I want to auto track my mobile (or whatever one decides.)
>> Right now I have to go in after every reboot or restart of Xastir and
>> re-enable tracking.
>
> Thinking about this a bit more, how about some new command-line
> flags instead of some new togglebuttons?  This would play nicely
> with Xastir in server-mode.  Perhaps something like:
>
>
>   Xastir Command line Options
>
>   -c /path/dir       Xastir config dir
>   -f <callsign>      Track callsign             **PROPOSED**
>   -i                 Install private Colormap
>   -geometry WxH+X+Y  Set Window Geometry
>   -l Dutch           Set the language to Dutch
>   -l English         Set the language to English
>   -l French          Set the language to French
>   -l German          Set the language to German
>   -l Italian         Set the language to Italian
>   -l Portuguese      Set the language to Portuguese
>   -l Spanish         Set the language to Spanish
>   -m                 Deselect Maps
>   -p                 Disable Popups             **PROPOSED**
>   -t                 Internal SIGSEGV handler enabled
>   -v level           Set the debug level
>
>
> To me, command-line options sound like a better idea than yet more
> togglebuttons on the user interface, especially since we're talking
> about server-mode options here.
>
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