Load/Save-as Preferences (was: Configuration setup choises)

[alex-w]

Original report by Pierluigi Panunzi: https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/1766855

Hi! This is not a bug, but a request of new implementation. When Stellarium starts, the visualization follows what you set up (for example, initial direction, constellation lines, grids, available infos on selected items, atmosphere and so on) every time you change things and press the "Save Settings" in the "Configuration" tab (F2). That's ok...

The fact is that I use Stellarium not only in order to see the sky online (planetary mode) with a certain configuration (for example no constellation lines, expecially during the day!), but very often I need to use it as a pure sky map, without atmosphere, ground, with grids on, with constellation boundaries and so on: what I have to do is to click a lot of buttons or keyboard letters in order to obtain what I want... but sometimes forgetting some options...

what I ask is the capability to save not only a "basic" configuration (the one active when I run the program) but a couple or more (identified by other "names"), thus having the ability to switch among them, without forgetting anything.

I know that this task could be accomplished by means of scripts, but that's sometimes difficult and requires a deep knowledge of the program and it's subtleties... not for faint heart people, but for programmers!

do you think it'd be possible? Thanks a lot! Pierluigi Panunzi Rome, Italy

[gzotti]

See original discussion for solutions that work already: Learn your five favorite hotkeys, use startup ini or load scripts.

[axd1967]

the concept in this issue is to provide a "profile". a profile is the set of settings; currently, Stellarium provides only one profile, the "current" profile. (this is actually stored in config.ini).

this issue proposes to introduce the possibility to have several profiles, eg "my day profile", "my telescope profile", "presentation next week", "observatory profile", "home profile", etc. profile names are chosen by the user.

[github-actions[bot]]

Hello @alex-w! Thank you for this suggestion.

[alex-w]

This is a good task for the community to participate in the contribution into Stellarium. Who wants to help us?