Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

> On 28 May 2026, at 13:52, gallonf&z <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> No rating system will be ideal. In Addon, there are many "antique" aircraft simulations devoid of "Systems".
> Ratings will always be difficult to assign, and sometimes contreversal.
> I would prefer a search field by types of aircraft initiated by clicking "Browse”.

That’s what the intended goal of ’tags’ is, and search can already include tags. Eg ‘glider’, ‘bomber’, ‘Boeing’. Problem is there’s no auto-complete in the search box, so most people don’t know this works.

What I think may be sensible, is to extend the Filter Ui (under browse) with a ’tag selector UI’ (as seen in many places, eg Flickr, StackOverflow), to exclude / include certain tags. This would allow excluding aircraft by tag, regardless of the ratings filters. (we could also put a filter button / UI on search, but normally once you’re searching, there’s so few hits it doesn’t mater…)

The tags are pretty comprehensive:

	https://gitlab.com/flightgear/fgmeta-python/-/blob/next/src/flightgear/meta/aircraft_catalogs/catalogTags.py?ref_type=heads

.. but making a nice UI for these is slightly non-trivial. I know *how* to do it, just needs the time to make it look visually pleasing (needs a model, a Flow repeater, maybe some colour coding, a tags model with a popup…)

Kind regards,
James

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