Re: Much thicker lines by default

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

On Monday, 28 April, 2014 14:10:59 Dima Kogan wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> writes:
> 
> > On Monday, 28 April, 2014 13:30:18 Dima Kogan wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >> 
> >> The default line width appears to have been affected in a recent commit:
> >> 
> >>  https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot/commit/b6c8dbfc63387be9e0c84d0d7b9ba6f480e5da8b
> >> 
> >> The commit notes don't say anything about it, so I'm wondering if this
> >> change wasn't intentional. Is nobody else seeing this?
> >
> > Do you mean lines in the "test" command?  Which terminal?
> 
> I just ran a few more tests. Only the x11 terminal appears to be
> affected. This explains why nobody complained yet. To reproduce, plot
> anything 'with lines' in x11. Or "plot x".

I can see only one relevant change.  The linetype selected for the line
samples in "test" changed from LT_AXIS to LT_SOLID.   The default X11
settings for those are
! Default line widths
  gnuplot*axisWidth:   0
  gnuplot*line1Width:  1

I'm not entirely clear whether width 0 is expected to be narrower than
width 1, but it's believable.   But that would only affect the "test" command.

I don't see anything in that patchset that would affect normal plotting,
so that part remains unexplained.  I find it odd that it would hit only the
X11 terminal.  I guess we'll find out if people report anything similar for
other terminals.

	Ethan