Re: Release Plans

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 09/29/2013 03:46 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > I am not really sure what Daniel said here, but I really hope the plan isn't to 
> > make gnuplot go away.  For all the warts, gnuplot makes publication quality 
> > plots and fltk plots are ugly.
I get MUCH better publication results from fltk.  There may be 
differences depending on the level of OpenGL, etc.
Also, fltk is much more stable when generating more than a few plots.  I 
have it set as the default and have had
no  recent problems.  The last significant problem was with subplots, 
which also affected gnuplot.  Of course,
gnuplot should be retained for compatibility as long as anyone wants it.

Michael

> >    I don't care what the defaults are since I am perfectly comfortable making 
> > things work the way I want them to.
> > >
> > >Bob
> For me, the major drawback of OpenGL is the lack of consistency between 
> displayed figures and output produced by print().  Lack of support for TeX when 
> producing output via print() puts a real damper on publication graphics.
>
> In any event, the gnuplot toolkit is here to stay.  The discussion is about 
> changing the default toolkit to FLTK.
>
> Ben