Re: Going over bugs before release...

[Dave D. <dde...@es...>]

Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> writes:

> On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:42 pm, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>>
>> After going over those I marked one by one, there's currently only one
>> such bug left (X11 rotated text on unusual platforms...), which I've
>> assigned to Ethan, since he claimed at one point in time to have
>> reproduced the misbehaviour and understood the patch, too.
>
> I will apply the fix, but I remind you that there is a trade-off involved.
> The current bug can be described:
> 	"If you use a non-white background in the X11 terminal, then
> 	 rotated text may cause nearby elements to be drawn in the 
> 	 wrong color"
> I am not aware of any platform dependence. The bug is only 
> triggered by having a background color that is not pure white.
>
> With the patch applied there is no problem with colors, but any
> x11 plot containing rotated text is refreshed very much slower.
> This is in particular noticeable when you resize the plot window.
> But speeding up window resizing is certainly not release-critical,
> so we can address it later.
>


Sorry, I'm way out of date with gnuplot...

what's the change, and why does it cause a slowdown ?


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