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Display ground track only for selected satellite

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
Half a day
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop-dev

Research direction

The request is for an optional mode in the multi-satellite view that draws ground tracks only for the selected satellite. The payload names no files; start by finding where the ground track toggle for each satellite is stored and drawn in the GTK3 C source. Done would mean an option that hides other satellites' tracks while keeping the selected one visible. Design choices remain open, and the thread has no decision.

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Description

As an optional behavior, the multi-satellite view should display ground tracks only for the selected satellite. This would simplify switching ground tracks between satellites by alleviating the need to turn off ground track display for the previous satellite. In combination with issue #359 it would nicely keep the display highlighting information for the selected satellite.

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