Re: cbfix

[Micha W. <mw...@gm...>]

Hans-Bernhard Bröker schrieb:

>> Having autoscaling switched on for all axes by default (so the
>> default for all axes is the same) might be esthetically and
>> conceptionally "correct" but it is counterintuitive.
> 
> A note of clarification: it's not actually autoscaling that's getting
> in your way there.  It's auto-extension.  Which only happens if both 
> auto-scaling and auto-ticking are in operation.
> 
>> I would guess that it's far above 90% of cases where the colorbox
>> range should be "cbfix".  My feeling is that the default 
>> autoscaling for the colorbox is rarely wanted and used. Therefore
>> I'd suggest to turn the default to "set autoscale cbfix" (even
>> though this breaks backwards compatibility.
> 
> I'm against breaking backward compatibility for an issue that can 
> trivially be fixed by putting a line in your ~/.gnuplotrc (or other 
> platform's equivalent)

I am for breaking backward compatibility if it helps usability, since it
can be easily fixed by putting the old setting into ~/.gnuplotrc.