FlightGear Qt launcher wish list

Proposition for the new content / organisation of the FlightGear Qt launcher.

rem: each first-level item in the following list represents an icon in the vertical icon box, on the left side of the mainwindow. The sub-level items could be organised by tabs, groups, panels in separated pages.

rem2: some of these items don't exist yet, or are unstable. This list could be a starting point to develop some ideas...

• Summary
  • Select:
    • Mission
      • (ex: tutorials, carrier mission, volcanic ash mission, engine failure mission, military mission, fire mission...)
      • Rem: selecting Mission disables the Aircraft/Location/Time/Weather icons
    • Custom Flight Plan
    • UFO (sandbox mode)
    • Saved flights
  • Fly! = starts the simulation.

• Aircraft
  • Search box + List of the installed aircrafts
    • Rem: maybe better to download the addons manually and copying them in the add-ons directory?
  • Properties box (description, author, copyright, date, version, website, stable or unstable) with screenshots
  • Option: Hide aircraft based on completeness
  • Aircraft settings
    • (ex: weight, CoG, crew and passengers, bagages, fuel)
    • Enable System Failures
    • Enable Crash/Damages
    • Autostart engine(s)
  • HTML Aircraft documentation

• Location
  • Search box + List of the installed locations
  • 2D Map
    • Show/hide roads, rivers, Show/hide heightmap, zoom in/out...
    • Show the downloaded locations (with option to restrict the list to the downloaded scenaries only)
    • Show the points of interest
    • Show the NOTAM
    • Show the CTA, CTR and restricted areas
  • Toolbox to prepare the Flight Plan (departure, arrival, route, distance calculation, fuel calculation)
  • Enable NOTAM (with a select list of NOTAM)

• Time
  • Season (local or custom)
  • Hour/Time (local or custom)

• Weather
  • 2D Map (satellite weather map, forecast charts)
    • with the flight route previsouly defined
  • Basic settings: Sun/Snow/Rain/Icing/Storm
  • Advanced:
    • Clouds layers
    • Real online weather
    • Volumic clouds generation

• Pilot's Logbook
  • Logbook
  • Missions completed
  • Replay a flight

• Settings
  • Language
    • (default (english) or locale or custom)
  • Joystick/Keyboard/Mouse
  • AI
    • Traffic density
    • Dogfighting bots
  • Path settings
    • Choose another FG_ROOT (default or custom)
    • Choose another FG_HOME
    • Choose another FG_DATA...
    • Screenshots directory
    • Replays directory
  • Network settings
    • Main switch to open/close the internet connexion
    • LAN or Internet connexion settings
    • IP address of the scenary server (terrasync)
    • IP address of the weather / METAR server
    • IP address of the aircrafts catalog server
    • IP address of the multiplayer server(s) (with username / login)
  • Screen settings
    • Multi-screen
    • Option: Fullscreen
    • PHI (instructor screen)
      • Port number (ex: --httpd=8080)
      • Button to open the web broser "localhost:8080"
  • Graphics
    • GPU Driver options (antialiasing, shaders,...)
    • Rendering method : ALS, Rembrandt...
    • Stereography...
  • Audio
    • Sound device
    • Volume
    • Microphone
  • Scenary
    • Mesh quality, Level of Details
    • Textures quality
    • AutoGen settings (buildings, cars, objects, trees,...)
    • Procedural cities settings
    • Bombable (animations, scenary damages...)
    • Wildfire
  • Debug
    • Enable debug mode (debug menu, console, fps and stats display)
    • Path to the debug logs directory

• Help
  • HTML Documentation

• Credits
  • link to FG wiki
  • link to FG website
  • Build / version number
  • Copyright