Re: default: x11 or wxt?

[Richard H. <r.h...@rl...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:

> What will be the default terminal for 4.2 under X11 -- x11 or wxt?
> Currently it is wxt. However, its performance for drawing images is lower
> than x11. Should not be x11 the default?
> 

I use x11 terminal for quick looks, and epslatex for hardcopy/publication.

I installed wxt out of curiosity.
These are my general, initial impressions and thoughts:
wxt looks good on the screen.
It provides and mechanism to implement richer functionality (save as
'eps/png/svg/etc..' option?) in future.

however,
I didn't work 'out of the box' for me - fonts are tiny.
It is slower than x11, am I going to run into 'out of memory' problems as
well?
WxWidgets + Cairo + Pango, that's more dependency to maintain.

I think on balance I'll be using X11 because of my particular font problem,
and wxt doesn't give anything unique.
I would probably want wxt default if alpha channel existed and unsupported
in x11.

These thoughts have raised a couple of questions I am curious about:

Does gnuplot support alpha channel?

Is wxt driven by the svg term?


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