I have been using
OpenCPN extensively now for a few thousand miles and have found it generally very stable and very good. There are a couple of usability issues that I would like to address but for the moment just this one.
When
AIS target alarms and the
AIS alert box comes up there are two buttons at the bottom 'Silence' and 'Acknowledge'. Hitting acknowledge momentarily closes the alert box but then it's back hogging
screen real estate. On a smaller
screen it is really a pain.
I believe that hitting acknowledge should close the dialog box but leave the dangerous target red etc.. It should not instantly re-alert. Perhaps a time or distance filter could be configured to re-trigger the alert if range is still closing after two minutes or if the target has reduced the range by 25 % or something like that.
Ideas?
As far as i can tell this affects all versions.
Cheers
Chris