Re: Qt rcc absolute path - Re: Getting ready to put out a 4.6 release candidate

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

On Friday, January 06, 2012 11:09:49 am Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Btw: Jérôme now fixed the source to the extent that I can work with Qt
> terminal (it is usable for testing, but the remaining problems are not
> acceptable for a release). Thanks to the fix I don't have to manually
> patch Makefiles any more.

So he replied to you directly?  What is the nature of the fix?   
It will be more useful if any changes are kept in sync with the CVS
version. 

Do you think that it's realistic after all to say that we should aim for 
a working OSX+qt in version 4.6?

> I like the terminal and have some more feature requests and bug
> reports (or maybe patches for the trivial issues), but I will wait
> until it starts working properly. I really like the fact that it has
> "export to PDF", "Print" functionality and auto-resize the plot, none
> of which is present in wxt.

The PDF output is not bad, but the SVG output is definitely not as
useful as the output directly from the svg terminal.  No object
grouping, no attributes, no interactive mousing, etc.

But yeah, I like it too.  I switched to using qt by default just
so I could identify and fix any weak points.  The main problem I see
is that supposedly the performance is much better in "opengl" mode,
but I have not figured out how to enable that mode.  I have a package
libqtopengl4 installed, but this is apparently not sufficient.

I don't quite follow what your problem is with auto-resize.  
The wxt terminal does almost exactly the same thing except it doesn't 
have a toggle button in the tool widget.  [As it happens, I like the wxt 
behavior better, since sometimes I want a pure expansion and for the 
times I don't the a replot is only one mouse click away. 
But this is clearly a matter of opinion.]

	cheers,

		Ethan

> 
> Mojca


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