Hi Raymond

Le dimanche 02 décembre 2012 à 21:23 -0800, Raymond Lillard a écrit :
> Andreas,
> 
> On 12/01/2012 10:29 AM, Andreas Guelzow wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 09:41 -0800, Raymond Lillard wrote:
> >> I often create charts and need to heavily customize
> >> them with non-default settings.  These charts are
> >> usually based on the scatter chart and have several
> >> X-Y data sets plotted.  I often add extra axises
> >> along the right side with explicit scaling.
> >>
> >> All of this is to say that when I click on "Apply"
> >> and the property window closes, it is a significant
> >> annoyance to have to re-open the window and navigate
> >> a complex tree of properties to continue with my
> >> customization.
> >>
> >> My simple request is for a way I can tweak something
> >> in gnumeric to stop this behavior?  A long term
> >> solution would be of course to add a "Close" button.
> >
> > This is enhancement request
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331556
> > you may want to add your comments to that report.
> 
> Wow.  I just looked at the above enhancement request.
> It has been ignored for 6 years.  Is there any reason
> I should think my input likely to get this fixed ?

Yes, an bug with some activity is more likely to get fi

> 
> >> I don't mind rebuilding gnumeric from source. I don't
> >> know the Python language and don't have time to learn
> >> it, but I'm sure I could apply a patch.
> >
> > Gnumeric is written in C, not python.
> 
> I assumed the graphical code was coded in an interpreted
> language rather than C.  I know C quite well.  If you
> point me to the right file, I will give a shot at a
> submitting a patch.
> 
> I grep'd thru the src directory but didn't get any
> meaningful hits on the keywords I tried.  I think it
> should be easy to make the changes without understanding
> the overall structure of gnumeric.

Part of the code is in src/sheet-object-graph.c and part is in goffice
(goffice/graph/gog-guru.c).
The issue is that the fix must not break the gnumeric undo/redo
framework. I have some ideas about how this might be done.

> BTW, I like gnumeric a lot better than the star office
> derivatives and only want to see it improved.

Thanks for your interest,
Jean


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