FlightGear Reaches v2.0

distantbody writes "The flight sim project FlightGear has reached version 2.0. From the website: 'Highlights of this new version include: Dramatic new 3D clouds, dramatic lighting conditions, improved support for custom scenery, and many many new and detailed aircraft models.' Full list of improvements here. And of course the screenshots. The release coincides with the release of SimGear v2, the 'set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization applications' on which FlightGear is based."

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Re:My apologies for a threadjack.

[Blakey Rat]

The classic discussion interface has changed too, it's actually more buggy than the 2.0 one at this point since apparently Slashdot hasn't heard of "regression testing".

All of the following buggy screenshots were taken with discussion 1.0 turned on:

http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/cant_save_prefs.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/email_options.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/floating_div_corrupted.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/floating_div_font_size.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/people_modifiers_cutoff.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/post_headers.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/post_reply_buttons.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/reply_button_with_growths.png (My particular favorite, still unfixed-- looking at it right now as I post!)
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/sectional_options.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/section_collapsed.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/slashdot_idle_comments.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/slashdot_idle_template.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/slashdot_user_template.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/thread_outline.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/weird_blue_oval.png

Anyway, the lesson learned here is that Slashdot is extremely buggy. All those images come from bug reports I've entered against it... very, very few of them have been fixed. (Maybe 2 or 3 of the entire lot? I'm too lazy to log into SourceForce, the worst bug tracking tool in the universe, to check.)

I submitted all those bugs in response to an editor who complained that I was griping about Slashdot without helping the project in any way. So I put in the bugs to help the project, and gasp shock amaze, Slashdot still sucks ass. Consider that a win for my side.

The other lesson learned here is don't bother to submit bug reports against Slashdot, like most open source projects they simply do not give a fuck about user-submitted bugs. Your time would be more productively spent smashing your forehead into a wall.