Re: Qt terminal

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 20:25, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday, 08 January 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> My only remaining question that is pretty relevant for the user
>> experience: How can I convince the cursor to stay in terminal (text
>> mode) after entering some plotting command (and optionally still make
>> the plotting window pop in front of the screen)?
>
>> If I load "all.dem", I have to keep switching back to terminal to be
>> able to hit enter to continue after a pause. In X11 that is not
>> necessary (but I don't know how gnuplot with X11 works on Linux).
>
> I do not have this problem with the qt terminal under linux, but to
> the best of my knowledge this is because of the setting "do not steal
> focus" in the window manager. I have no idea how you set the
> equivalent on OSX.  The converse problem - sending the focus back to
> the terminal while you are trying to work with the plot window -
> is equally annoying but can be disabled by  ./configure --disable-raise-console.

I hope that somebody else will have more ideas. Now that Jérôme is
playing with application settings like hiding windows, he might have
seen something about switching focus as well. (But behaviour of focus
of applications in Lion is somewhat buggy anyway. There are some
aspects that I really hate. I'm unable to open a new window with
apple+N in - say - web browser without the latest minimized window
popping up as well.)

> Yeah, I also would prefer a different default aspect ratio.
> But there is plenty of precedent for 640x480 being the default size.

What about other's opinions?

> Maybe we could make it a user-settable preference in the tool widget.
> The wxt terminal maintains a preference file ~/.gnuplot-wxt so that the
> widget settings are persistent.  I suppose the qt terminal could do the same.

Where does Qt terminal store background color?

>> - I'm able to set arbitrary background color and it is remembered.
>> However I cannot change plot size, font size somewhere in settings and
>> ask gnuplot/qt to remember that. That would be much more useful for me
>> than background color. (Yes, I know that I can always use "set term qt
>> <whatever> to do that, but that's not the point.")
>
> See above.

1.) I'm still curious to know where Qt terminal stores background color.
2.) It would be *really really really* nice if it was doable via GUI,
in the same way as for background color. Yes, ~/.gnuplot<something> is
always an option, but if some options like color can be configured in
gui, I don't see a reason why others (plot size, font face & size)
couldn't be.

Mojca