June 25, 2012

Attendees: Eric, Conrad, TomG, Greg, Scooter, TomF, David, Elaine

Action Items

• Eric will add "center atom" as default mouse mode, replacing "move label"
• David and Greg will work on making Nucleotides scene-aware
• David will change default scene name to "1", "2", etc instead of "sc0001", "sc0002", etc.
• TomG will trac ticket for removing surface color source
• Greg will back port x3d converter bug fix to 1.6.1 and build 1.6.2 installers

Items

1. Updates
   • David is refactoring animation so that "name" and "title" are replaced by a single immutable key, and add a display name that is user editable
2. Conrad demonstrated new timeline export to HTML
3. Tom changed default surface color to match molecule (instead of atom) color per Elaine's suggestion
4. Tom replaced old-style OpenGL picking with current method (using distinct colors)
   • A display glitch sometimes happen now when a hover label is displayed and then hidden. Eric, Elaine and TomG have all seen this and TomG is working on it.
5. Eric suggested that the "atom centering" mouse mode added by TomG should be a default mode
   • Eric will replace the "move label" (control-right) button with "atom centering"
6. Nucleotides is not currently scene-aware so Greg will get information from David on what needs to be done
7. There are a few significant errors in 1.6.1 so we will make a Chimera 1.6.2 release
   • Greg will port fixes for x3d converter before making the new installers
8. Meeting adjourned