Bug 86506

Summary:	Improvements to Plot dialog/Labels tab
Product:	[Applications] kst	Reporter:	Nicolas Brisset <nicolas.brisset>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kst
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.x
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Solaris
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Nicolas Brisset 2004-08-03 17:40:42 UTC

Version:           0.99-devel (using KDE 3.2.1, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2
OS:                SunOS (sun4u) release 5.8

(continuation of the "inspired from xmgrace" series):
If you look at the "Labels" tab in the Plot dialog, you'll notice that there is (a lot of) unused room in the line with "Numbers". So I thought I might give ideas of how we could "fix" this :-)

1) Add a spinbox with "Angle" to allow rotating the labels. This is useful when you want to plot more labels (or they are long) without overlap. I must admit the current labels are nice and do not overlap too often, but this wish is a nice (required ?) complement to #86605
2) In the same spirit, Grace has an option to "stagger" labels (i.e. write them at 2 alternating heights) which can also turn out to be useful. We could add a checkbox (or spinbox if an int can be useful there ?)

Comment 1 Andrew Walker 2004-08-10 01:19:23 UTC

The functionality (but not the UI) is now present to enable 1).

Comment 2 Andrew Walker 2004-08-12 23:11:32 UTC

I will suggestion 2) to another bug.

Comment 3 Andrew Walker 2004-08-17 19:02:56 UTC

CVS commit by arwalker: 

Added ability to rotate the axes number labels from -90 to +90 degrees on both the x- and y-axis.
Fix for 86506 part 1).

CCMAIL: 86506-done@bugs.kde.org


  M +2 -0      kstplotdialog_i.cpp   1.77
  M +300 -242  plotdialog.ui   1.47