Re: Request for Comments: Release 4.2

[Michael Godfrey]

On 06/24/2016 09:32 PM, Rik wrote:
> Given that there are still 2 months of development time, what should the
> priority projects be this summer?
Would it be possible to have a concerted effort to resolve the problems
with qt and fltk graphics. The following steps could be helpful:

1. Bring together all the known problems, identified by symptom, 
software/hardware
    dependence, bug report #'s, and available tests.
2. Prioritize the problems.
3. Decide on appropriate actions. Note that Matlab runs checks to 
determine which
     graphics interface will work. It seeems to start with hardware 
accelerated OpenGL
     but falls back to software under some conditions (like remote 
display). Some form
     of testing/fallback will likely be needed no matter how many bugs 
are fixed. Currently,
     qt/fltk do not work under most remote access paths. The simplest 
fix for this could
     be to provide a switch to gnuplot in these cases. An additional 
action to be considered
     could be the merge of qt and fltk code.
4. Try to resolve as many of the problems from 2. above as possible.

Michael