Re: Changes to stable branch?

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

On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:22 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >
> > Actually, on 10.3 and any previous system with X11 installed it will 
> > startup with terminal x11.
> > Somewhat better than 'unknown' ;-) 
> 
> Ah.  I'm starting to get the picture on how Aqua functions.  The 
> suggested fixes all sound logical to me.

I hesitate a little to say this, but it seems to me that unless and
until aquaterm provides all the features of x11, it is better to
default to x11.    

If there is something in particular that users 
need from aquaterm, they can easily do a 'set term'.  But 
new users who are presented with aquaterm by default may
not even realize that they are missing out on capabilities
(Mousing!) they would have had under x11.

Per has been doing a great job of developing the aquaterm
option, but so far as I can tell it's still not quite up to the level
of the other primary gnuplot interfaces.



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