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Re: Deprecating FLTK toolkit
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Rik |
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Re: Deprecating FLTK toolkit |
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Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:58:06 -0800 |
On 11/08/2017 08:45 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>> Using that same argument, we should also get rid of the gnuplot interface.
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> The overriding reason for gnuplot toolkit is *quality* graphics output.
> If Octave loses a means to generate quality graphics that can be used in
> publications (including true vector based outputs), it's losing a big
> advantage to Matlab or some other data processing app. We still get
> occasional bug reports for gnuplot toolkit, which is an indication that
> people are using it. But the bugs certainly aren't at a frequency which
> is causing many programmers all sorts of consternation and using up
> resources that can be used elsewhere.
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I might have been too subtle. I don't think it is a good idea to get rid
of gnuplot, not just yet anyways. I was trying to argue that the logical
extension of getting rid of one toolkit because of manpower issues, is to
get rid of *all* toolkits save for the one selected for continuing
development. In this case, I don't feel we can get rid of FLTK because Qt
is still not 100% reliable and 100% capable of doing everything that a
graphics toolkit needs to do.
--Rik