Bug 276324 - Marble should provide a Goto (Ctrl+G) action
Summary: Marble should provide a Goto (Ctrl+G) action
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272247
Alias: None
Product: marble
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.1.0
Assignee: marble-bugs
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Reported: 2011-06-23 13:53 UTC by Shriramana Sharma
Modified: 2012-01-09 20:22 UTC (History)
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Description Shriramana Sharma 2011-06-23 13:53:23 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

New users to Marble would expect to find a Goto action (preferably with a Ctrl + G shortcut). For example, Stellarium has a Goto action to locate a star or celestial object.

Granted, the navigation pane is there. So at least one can change the wording "Search" to "Goto" and make G the accelerator. 

My point is that one of the first things a person does upon opening an atlas or map is locating a particular location and there must be a self-evident way to do that in Marble.

I am reporting this as a bug instead of wishlist as it affects usability IMHO.

Thanks for all your great work!

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Shriramana Sharma 2011-06-23 13:58:11 UTC
Sorry for the extra post but I forgot another point which I wished to make. Any Goto feature should enable inputting of coordinates. While coordinates input in the format of 

30.15644°E, 65.88550°N

do work (but DMS doesn't work but that's another bug -- bug ) it is not self-evident that coordinates can be input in that pane because the input fields stands above a list of locations, and normally such input fields are used only for filtering. Some indication is necessary to the user that coordinates can also be input, whether you choose to implement a Goto dialog as in other applications or take the user to the navigation pane upon hitting Goto.

(BTW should I report this aspect as a separate bug?)
Comment 2 Dennis Nienhüser 2011-06-23 14:16:10 UTC
See also bug 272247.
Comment 3 Dennis Nienhüser 2012-01-09 20:22:24 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 272247 ***