Marble Changelog

What's new in Marble 1.6.0

• Stars Constellations:
• Finding patterns in prominent stars within apparent proximity on Earth's night sky is a human tradition dating back as far as the Neolithic Age. Marble now renders popular stars constellations.
• Draggable Panels:
• You might know Marble's user interface with controls on the left side and a large map / globe on the right side. Over the years Marble got more powerful and new controls found their way into the tab bar on the left, which eventually grew short of space. Panels to the rescue! Show the ones (Settings => Panels) you need and close the others. Drag our new panels to your favorite place and stack them on top of each other as you like.
• Navigation Tool Redesign:
• Did you miss a panel with a map zoom and pan control above? Right, there is none. While redesigning our navigation tool on top of the map towards a modern look we fell in love with it so much that we decided a panel providing the same functionality would be of no use. (The old control is still available for developers who use it in their software. We have no plans to remove it.)
• New WebKit Powered Info Dialog:
• Many items shown in the map offer additional information when selected (clicked). We redesigned our information dialog from a standalone window to one that sticks to the associated map position, allowing you to continue interaction with the map while it is opened. As an additional benefit the new dialog is based on WebKit and therefore renders even complex websites. Use it to research information about places in Wikipedia, for example.
• Map Theme Installation:
• The ability to install additional map themes directly in the application has always been an advantage of Marble's KDE version. We have redesigned this feature to be more concise and show detailed installation progress at the same time. Furthermore it's now possible to open map themes directly from the installation dialog. For the first time the feature is also available in the Marble Qt version. This means that Windows and Mac users can now benefit from the convenient map theme installation as well. Make sure to check out our ever-growing collection of map themes and explore historic maps, street map variants, other planets and much more.
• License Information Info Box:
• Marble's About dialog provides plenty of information about the origin of data and licenses. In the bottom right corner of the map we now also show license notices for the current map theme. This way giving proper attribution in screenshots becomes much easier. Like all of Marble's map controls the license info can be moved around freely and even hidden.