Bug 115665

Summary: More meaningful default plot names
Product: [Applications] kst Reporter: Nicolas Brisset <nicolas.brisset>
Component: generalAssignee: kst
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: netterfield, syntheticpp
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.10.0   
Target Milestone: 2.0.3   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: All   
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Description Nicolas Brisset 2005-11-04 11:36:50 UTC 
Version:           1.2.0_devel (using KDE 3.4.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.3
OS:                SunOS (sun4u) release 5.8

Currently, plot names are given according to a basi numbering scheme (Pi, with i incremented automatically). This makes it difficult to correlate plot names with their contents.
It would be much better to give plots the name of the curve they contain, either when they are created or each time a curve is added/removed/renamed (though the latter may be more difficult to handle) unless the name has been changed manually.

Even special cases would be fairly easy to handle:
- plots with more than one curve: concatenate names (up to some limit, after which some sort of ellipsis sounds appropriate)
- already existing name: append something (like for vectors, which by the way should start from "-2" and not "-1")
Comment 1 Netterfield 2006-01-26 05:27:50 UTC 
This could be easily be done by dialogs which create plots.
Comment 2 Andrew Walker 2006-01-26 19:47:11 UTC 
Should be fixed for 1.2.1 release
Comment 3 Netterfield 2007-03-31 01:23:04 UTC 
This will require the concept of dynamic auto-names to really be useful...
which is a huge kettle of fish...
Comment 4 groot 2008-12-15 21:00:48 UTC 
Not solaris specific.
Comment 5 Peter Kümmel 2010-08-14 14:11:05 UTC 
Could be still open in Kst 1.
Comment 6 Netterfield 2011-01-14 22:47:21 UTC 
Fixed for 2.x
Wontfix for 1.x