[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Some random KOffice ideas
From:       Dik Takken <D.H.J.Takken () phys ! uu ! nl>
Date:       2006-03-29 19:16:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0603292109100.1381 () venus ! phys ! uu ! nl
[Download RAW message or body]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Robert Knight wrote:

>> Could KOffice possibly use GNUPlot for creating data plots? It looks like
>> KOffice is currently trying to re-invent the graphing-wheel.
>
> As Inge has already mentioned, KOffice uses a charting component
> written in Qt by another company which integrates well (since it is
> written in C++ using the same toolkit as the rest of the code)
>
> GNUPlot looks like it is primarily for scientific applications, and as
> such goes somewhat beyond the scope of KSpread as a general-purpose
> spreadsheet program.  If there is a need for a spreadsheet program
> with better support for scientific applications (which isn't already
> catered for by other free software) then we would have to agree on
> KSpread going in that direction before doing anything else, and then
> come up with a complete feature-set related to that goal.

You're right, Creating bar/pie charts is not easy using GNUPlot. I didn't 
think of that.

Speaking of scientific applications, I always use OO Calc for plotting 
measurement data (I use GNUPlot when it needs to look *real* good) and I 
would *love* to be able to do that using KSpread. Unfortunately this is 
not possible.

For scientific data plotting, GNUPlot is just about the best you can get. 
Maybe, some day, KOffice will have a GNUPlot-driven 'plot' object as well 
as a KChart driven chart 'object'...

Dik
_______________________________________________
koffice-devel mailing list
koffice-devel@kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]