Le jeudi 15 septembre 2005 à 11:45 -0400, Stephen R Laniel a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:34:01PM +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote: > > You use the wrong chart type. You have to select XY chart instead of > > line chart. > > Perfect! That fixed it. However, two things: > > 1) Given that it's possible to add an x-axis to a line > chart, it's not clear to an uninitiated user that x-axes > don't belong in line charts. Does anyone else find this > UI confusing?
axis belong to chart, they might be shared by several plots. > 2) Within the tree control for xy-charts, I expected the > x-axis field (the field where one enters x-axis data) to > be under Graph -> Chart1 -> X-Axis1. Yet it's under Graph > -> PlotXY1 -> Series1. Again, doesn't this strike anyone > as a counterintuitive UI? you can set extrema and ticks in axis, but the x values are series dependent. Several series can use different x values sets, so these values are in series, they cannot be elsewhere. > I might comment more generally that tree controls are hard > for a lot of people to grasp, and that they don't seem to > belong here especially well. But that's more debatable. Jean _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
