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Re: is image_viewer obsolete?


From: Søren Hauberg
Subject: Re: is image_viewer obsolete?
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:31:39 +0200

man, 18 10 2010 kl. 12:21 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
> Bug #31161 reports that the image function uses gnuplot even when
> another image viewer has been selected with the image_viewer
> function.
> 
> Is there any reason to keep this feature?  As I stated in my comment
> on the bug report, I consider using image viewers other than the
> Octave graphics renderer (currently either gnuplot or the new
> OpenGL+FLTK backend) to be obsolete because it is highly unlikely that
> any external image viewer will ever integrate properly with Octave's
> other graphics features.  So rather than fixing the graphics backends
> to respect the image_viewer selection, I think we should be removing
> support for this feature.
> 
> I plan to remove it soon, so if there is any object, please speak up.

I was the one advocating the feature years ago and for some time I have
been thinking we should get rid of it. It was added back in the days
where image rendering was highly experimental; now it's a standard
feature.

I'd say remove it.

Soren



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