OpenPlotter v2.x.x is coming!!

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Some context. OP2 will have 3 options:

A - out of the box img and NOOBS.
B - a script to create option A which can be modified and customized by advanced user to create OP flavors.[/b][/color]
C - a deb package to install on any debian system with options to install all packages.

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Hello,

I have some issues with openplotter 2 and touch screen support. There are great chances people want to use it with touch screens and support for that currently is poor.

1. Default installation needs to include virtual on screen keyboard with an icon on the taskbar. It think matchbox-keyboard will do
We will do this. Long time ago we searched for the best virtual keyboard and none of them was really ready for multilingual. It seems that matchbox-keyboard has improved this.

2. OpenCPN by default needs to start as maximized window (not just like regular window and not full screen either). If you start full screen you can't get to keyboard icon on a touch screen.
  There is a way of doing it with lxde
  in rc.xml under ~/.config/openbox/
  have a section

Code:

<application type="normal">
<maximized>true</maximized>
</application>

Now you have an option to autostart opencpn and a sub-option to start in fullscreen mode, we will try to add a third one in maximized mode.

3. I think all major openCPN plugins should be included by default just not activated
We will do this in option A and B but not in C. Right now you are testing just option C
4. There should be an option to download ALL available free US ENC charts and all other free world charts with 1-2 clicks. I've found openseamap charts also somewhat useful. They show landmarks (they are nice to have too)
I am afraid only 2 or 3 countries in the world have free charts, so this tool has no sense.
5. OpenCPN should be autostarted
You already have this option in openplotter-opencpn-installer app. But since you have always to do some settings on any new installed system (the most important is changing the Raspberry password), this option will not be on by default.
6. OpenGL and touch screen support should be enabled by default in OpenCPN
I am afraid this is not possible. The same img or NOOB file can be installed in RPI3 and RPI4 and on RPI3 opengl is not enabled by default. This should be the next setting to do after changing the password
7. Only once instance of OpenCPN should be allowed running at a time 
Why? How?
Is it possible to automate openplotter NOOB creation and have nightly builds of it?
It is. But there are 2 problems. You need a dedicated server to process and serve the files and we are talking about a huge amount of traffic that we can not afford. We are talking about building a complete OS with hundreds of packages and lot of things could go wrong, we need to monitor the result somehow.

Thanks,
--MG