Re: Bugs and wanted features in Gnumeric

[Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu>]

Hey,

Thanks for your feedback.

Your ideas could be more useful to us if you would be willing to file
them in Bugzilla. The best thing to do would be to 

1) Start a meta-bug titled "Features needed for scientific publishing"
or some similar title. This bug will hold references to all the other
bugs.

2) File each bug separately, checking to make sure that there is not
already a bug filed for the issue. Then, once the bug is filed, add a
link to the meta-bug above.

3) file the other bugs a simple bugs. The "it dies" bug is especially
troubling. If you have a way to reliably cause gnumeric to crash,
please, please, please, file a bug with a good explanation. You will
help yourself *and* everyone else. 

These steps might take you an hour of work, but it would greatly help
the developers track, comment, and fix each of the bugs. 

thanks,
adrian


On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:05 +0300, Vladimir Chukharev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to give some feed back, hoping it can help developers a bit.
>
> I tried to use Gnumeric to prepare figures for a scientific article.
> Since version 1.4.0 which I tried last time, the version 1.4.3 changed
> to almost usable. Export as SVG, edit the graph couple minutes
> in inkscape, save it as EPS, and you have quite a good picture.
> Great progress!
>
> With the missing features implemented (and bug 1 fixed) Gnumeric will
> become my main graphing tool.
>
> Missing features (more urgent first)
> 1. Label cannot be oriented vertically (along Y axis).
> 2. Impossible to write text in arbitrary places (e.g to mark a line).
> 3. Text should be able to contain sub- and superscripts. Best if it
> would be capable for math equations.
> 4. Cannot save a graph as EPS, though SVG format is easily transformed
> to EPS externally.
>
> Bugs I have noticed.
> 1. Font size is settable but not applied in legend.
> 2. It dies on attempt to delete just added second plot in a chart.
> 3. 'Paste Special' with Transpose checked does not adjust formulas in
> the cells.
> 4. When a sheet is duplicated, the references in a graph on the new
> sheet are to the old sheet.
> 5. References to data are always absolute in graph, which only take
> space and has no meaning for user IMHO.
>
> Best regards,