Re: pngcairo: suggestion for additional option

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 26 November 2007 10:11, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Thinking out loud...
> 
> Is there an advantage to having this be a function call, rather than
> simply exporting the scale itself in TERM_TABLE?  
> 
> Would we ever need separate scales for X and Y?
> 
> What about auxilliary information like the mouse coordinate format?
> This is a sore point in the current X11 implementation. You can 
> continue to mouse an old plot even after gnuplot itself has exited,
> but the format used for mouse coordinates falls back to a generic
> one rather than the user-specified one.
> 
> What if someone wanted mouse feedback from the colorbar?
> We don't do that now, but as long as we're looking into expanded
> capabilities, why not?

Another thought, from my long-term wishlist...

Whatever mechanism we end up with, it would be nice to have it
available for the individual subplots within a multiplot.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt