Re: [Gnuplot-info] qt terminal hangs in gnuplot 5.0

[Ethan M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Elias Assmann <eli...@gm...> wrote:
> On 02/04/2015 06:41 PM, - wrote:
>> Can I ask what are the advantages of Qt over wxt?
>
> The release notes say “[Qt] is now the fastest and most full-featured
> interactive terminal option”.  Beyond that, this is just what I wanted
> to see for myself.
>
> One of the most first differences I noticed is that the symbols (when
> plotting ‘with points’ or ‘with linespoints’) are asymmetric.  What is
> the purpose of that?

Could you clarify what you mean by "asymmetric"?
I attach a pdf file of a test of the qt terminal from version 5.
This shows
1) the points are symmetric (at least to my eye)
2) export to pdf does produce a color plot

If your setup is producing something else, please file a bug report on the
tracker with information about the system, particularly the qt version.

     Ethan




> At first I thought it was so that you could tell apart different symbols
> more easily when points are on top of each other (e.g., like a “*” will
> hide “+” and “x” below it).  But that is not the case since all of the
> symbols are asymmetric in the same way.