Re: Qt terminal status / linux distro packages

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 08/22/2012 12:56 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> I don't know if leaving out the X11 terminal is a good idea.  At least
> one of the apps I know of will choose "x11" if the user doesn't set an
> environment variable specifying an alternative gnuplot terminal.  So, if
> the distro creators leave out x11 that will cause problems in at least
> this case.

I should say that, as well, an app may want to have both x11 and qt, for 
example.  A reasonable scenario is: run from the command line, x11, and 
run from a UI, qt.

I've done some compilations here to check sizes:

gnuplot with x11 and qt: 3462231
gnuplot with x11, no qt: 3067584
gnuplot with qt, no x11: (I don't see a way to disable x11 terminal)

So, qt adds 13%.  That is a fairly big addition if qt isn't used.  For 
the qt user though it isn't a concern because of the added support.

Dan