Re: NEW: axis padding property

[Frederic Parrenin <parrenin ujf-grenoble fr>]

> With simple graphs, it should be fast enough, i.e. < 0.5 s. Is chart
> editor always slow to appear ? Or does it happen only with some of your
> charts ?

OK, I exagerated a bit, it is indeed more on the order of 0.5 s.
But this also happens when you switch the selection between various
objects in the properties editor.
Yes, it does happen on all my charts.
Going below ~0.1 s would make gnumeric charts feel faster.

> Sure it would be great. And it will happen some day... I'm not sure
> about the side pane though, since current property editor will not fit
> nicely in gnumeric UI (It's to wide to be on left or right side, and
> will leave to much blank space if put on top or on bottom). A dialog
> will probably be better.

Please think again about the side pane. It would really be convenient to
not have to launch the property window each time you want to modify a
graph. It would also make useless the preview, because you could adopt
an "instant apply approach"
I know some good graphing softwares like grapher have adopted this
"properties in a side pane" approach.
The current dialog property is not that wide to fit in a side pane,
given also that more and more screen are wide. The dialog may also be
reworked with that in mind.

> There's the beginning of direct object manipulation in CVS. But it still
> need some work. Currently, chart is completely re-rendered on every
> mouse movement, so on heavy graphs it's unusable. What I'll probably try
> will be to disable plot area content rendering during manipulation, or
> even implement a fast mode which will plot only a subset of graph data.
> 
> http://emmanuel.pacaud.free.fr/screenshots/gnumeric/goffice-mouse-01.gif

Great!