Re: Gnumeric/Guppi

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:01:58PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
>
> > Why can't the graph guru stay on top?
> What do you mean ?


The gurus usually stay above the worksheet when you select regions for 
the expression entry widget in the guru. THe Graph guru doesn't (at 
least for me).


> > Why do the category labels don't show?
> For which graph type ?


vertical barchart, horizontal barchart, pie chart (wherever its really 
categories rather than coodinates).


> > What is the purpose of being able to change the series field (it
> > is overwritten by the name anyways or ignored if you doin't give a
> > name!)?
> The series field should be the same as the series name.  We could
> make it non-editable in to option menu, but it seemed useful to
> support it for constant names.  We need an expr-entry to support
> calculated names.


There is a series field and a name field. Changing the name field 
effectively changes both the content of the series field and name field. 
Changing the name field does nothing apparent.


> > And it is highly unintuitive to start editing a graph. `right-click on 
> > it while it is not selected' ???If we select a graph and invoke the 
> > graph guru, wouldn't you expect that we can edit the graph?
> Little trick.
> Right click just _outside_ the graph when it is selected.
> and the option menu appears.  I'm trying to work around bonobo/guppi
> to support it on the interior too.


I knew this (it wsa mentioned before). But how many users would ever 
figure this out?


> > And left clicking on an unselected scatterplot does what?
> I don't recall,  possibly it zooms in/out ?


On the selected scatter plot it does. It doesn't seem to do anything if 
the graph is not selected. (independent from plot type).


> > The buble size is absolute (ie. it doesn't scale with everything else)?


THis is probably a design decision, but the next one seems to be a bug:


> > Why can't you drag out the pies in the first quadrant of a piechart?
> Trow ?

Andreas

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