Make moon orbits in solar system view independent of planet orbits

[patudom]

Sometimes it is useful to show only the Moon's orbit, without showing orbits of all the planets in the background. Currently, the Moon orbits only display when the planet orbits are displayed. Can this be changed, so we can toggle the orbits on/off independently?

[pkgw]

This is a pretty specialized use case, so I have trouble seeing it be something we'd prioritize. I guess the workaround would be to turn off all satellite orbits, and then add a special orbit layer corresponding to the Moon?

[patudom]

It seems like it's just a logic on/off thing, so shouldn't it be pretty straightforward to rewire?

Actually, I'm noticing different behaviors in the web and desktop client, and unless there is a compelling reason, I think they should behave in the same way to avoid confusion.

Desktop client:

• Planet orbits and moon/satellite orbits for everything besides Earth's moon are independent. (You can turn off planet orbits while looking at orbits of moons of non-Earth planets. This seems like an oversight because "planet orbits" in the past also gave us our moon's orbit. When the other planets' moons were added later, we probably should have moved control of Earth's moon to the "moon & satellite orbits" button, but that was never done and it may be confusing to change it now).

Web client:

• You cannot turn on moon/satellite orbits unless planet orbits are already on. The behavior should be changed to match the desktop client.

[patudom]

(Agree it's not a super urgent/high priority. Just trying to be in the habit of documenting when I notice behaviors that could be improved).

[pkgw]

@patudom Thanks for documenting in detail, it's definitely very helpful to have things written down! My hesitation was because I thought this was calling for new UI toggles, which I prefer to avoid since our UI is so complex already, but it sounds like all the checkboxes are there already, so they might as well work right.