Hi,
Bart, its not so much a review, as just points (like Steve's liking of the Megastar print panels).
Some points I have come across with regards user interface:
1. Some right-click menus do not live up to their name as context menus
2. Various long-winded menus to go to e.g. a Messier, NGC object or Asteroid.
3. Lack of hot-keys to turn off "Constellation Lines" (although is more important in "Planetarium" Prgrams).
John
OK, in that case:
Equinox (Mac OS X only):
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The Good:
- You get a great view of things because all your panels go semi-transparent when you're not using them.
- You can very quickly get info on any object by just clicking on it and there is a lot of info there
- You can move around by just grabbing hold of the sky or by moving a circular dial that always shows where you are looking in the sky (N, S, E, W) and moving it to where you want to be.
- There are also nice sliders for moving your altitude and your field of view
The Bad:
- You have to get used to a lot of key combinations while clicking. Not much happens when you right click. Example: to get info just click, to move the screen shift+click, to centre what you clicked on cmd+shift+click. So see what you would ecpect to see in the eyepiece in a little popup cmd+click. To measure angular separation option+click then drag. These are all very powerful features and once you get used to them very easy but not at all intuative!
- You can't Zoom by selecting a region. You zoom by centering what you want and then moving the zoom slider.
- The scroll-wheel does not zoom like it would on most skymapping software but pointlessly scrolls down.
KStars (Linux & Max OS X):
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The Good:
- a very nice nightvision mode
- very easy to navigate around. Click and drag to move the sky and scrollwheel to zoom in and out.
- Does everything you would expect pretty much in the way you expect
The Bad:
- IT doesn't do anything special or anything particularly advanced. It just draws maps of the sky and lets you zoom around and see what's what. No special features you won't see elsewhere, no neat little tricks, just simple and to the point and very intuative
- Has too few star names in my opinion.
  