Sorry if this starts to sound rant-ish (it's really not). It might be cleaner to have a check box way back in the "Graphs & Options" tab to provide the option to the user to normalize the frequencies by bin width rather than have the "Histogram chart" option forcibly (and silently) do this.
At my first user experience of the "Histogram Chart" option was that it was simply a "Column chart" with the Gap set to 0%. This intuition turned out to be incorrect, but it's really what I thought as a first experience with that feature and I imagine probably what most first-time users experience with that feature. So the "Histogram Chart" option not only looks different but _behaves_ differently which sort of sneaks up on you as a user and takes some time getting used to. Note: There is already a tick box in the "Graphs & Options" to get a cummulative view of the data so it seems appropriate to have a tick option to yes/no normalize by bin width there as well. Ok, yes the graphical histogram chart option has this functionality too so you can turn the cummulative aspect on/off without having to go back and redo but then it's only in the Histogram Chart option -- not there in the column or bar chart types. Getting a cummulative view is a nice feature -- but I think having the option to normalize (also) needs to be back at the "Graphs & Options" as a tick box for users that may want column chart type. I imagine more users will know ahead-of-time if they want a cummulative histogram and would expect that such an option to come early in the work flow rather than as an option of the graphical object at the very end of their work flow as an after-thought. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list