Control: forcemerge 711139 711141 I'm merging these two bugs because they basically cover the same issue. However each covers 3 different issues: a documentation one, an UI one, and a feature one (see below).
On 2014-06-10 19:04:42 -0700, sfeam wrote: > > Then if I type "quit" to get the prompt back, the window > > persists as required, but grid button no longer works. > > You are trying to use "persist" for something beyond what > it was intended for. I was mainly surprised that qt didn't behave like wxt. But this is partly due to incomplete documentation (partly solved, but the man page should be updated too) and poor UI: when a feature provided by a button is not available, the button is normally greyed out; this is not the case here. Alternatively, an error message could be displayed when a non-working button ("show grid" or zoom) is clicked. > Now it is true that some terminal types are smart enough > to toggle the grid on/off even in persistent mode after > the main program has exiting. It would be possible to > make qt do that also, but only if the original plot already > contained a grid. And that is only possible because it > isn't really necessary to regenerate the whole plot just > to make the grid lines [in]visible. It doesn't change > the basic limitation. If toggling the grid is important > to you by itself, could you please file a feature request > for uniform support to toggle it off in terminals that > support a persistent mode? It would be easy in qt, but > I'd have to think about the other terminals. Well, toggling the grid and zooming may be important in some cases. When gnuplot is used in a script, there should be a way to use these features (I'm not saying to use "persist", it could be something like "pause mouse keypress" + some other code but it seems to badly interact with the buttons) and make the gnuplot processes terminate when the terminal is closed by the user ('q', 'Ctrl-q', via the window manager, or whatever). See https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1418/#645d and my reply. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org