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 _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
