gnome2 graphing update [WAS: Re: Proposals about gnucash-gnome2]

Josh Sled jsled at asynchronous.org
Thu Oct 13 09:49:28 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 14:37 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote:

> Rotated texts are supported in latest goffice release. If you have

Awesome!  I should have been more clear...

- The version of goffice we've copied into the gnucash source tree 
  doesn't support rotation.

- I probably won't re-copy libgoffice before the release due to 
  depenedency issues.

Though I've not taken stock of the calendar and dependent-library
release dates, recently, so we may no longer need to depend on an old
copy of libgoffice, but I doubt it.


> > I know there's a way to specify the colors to GOG but
> > my attempts aren't working and I don't know if I care enough for G2.

> Please have a look at this file:
> 
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnumeric/src/dialogs/dialog-about.c
> 
> That's the code for gnumeric about dialog. Another solution would be to
> tweak default style in goffice/graph/gog-theme.c.

I've been working against gnumeric's dialog-about.c, which has been
invaluable, but my uses of the same patterns (w.r.t. style) don't result
in the style I'm defining being used, and in fact leave every series
with the same style, as well as creating a bunch of unused elements in
the legend for the graph.  I hope to try again, but it seems low prio
for gnucash's gnome2 port.  I've been hesitant to dig too deeply into it
due to the fact that we have a hack-copy of goffice.


> Current goffice API is somewhat scary, and must be improved. Don't
> hesitate to open a bug in goffice bugzilla for a discussion regarding
> API issues.

(A bug for API discussion?)  In any case, I don't find the API too
horrible, though certainly there could be a much simpler facade for most
callers.  It is not at all documented, which would be nice.

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