On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Stefano Avallone <stavallo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I read in the Octave documentation [1] that a newer (than gnuplot) plotting > capability is provided by the FLTK/OpenGL backend. This new backend is not > available in the current octave arch package, because the fltk library is > required to be installed at build time. > > I read that the FLTK backend is rather faster (for 3d plots) than the gnuplot > backend, and also some options (e.g., Postscript level 3 or pdflatex outputs > of the print command) are only available with the new backend. > > I installed fltk from extra and recompiled octave. The new backend seems to > work fine and it is also enables to zoom (or rotate) and pan the current plot. > > I don't know if the addition of the FLTK backend has been discussed in the > past and abandoned for some reasons, but I see no issues in including it, > since the default backend seems to still be gnuplot. So, adding the support > for the FLTK backend would be as simple as putting fltk in makedepends and > optdepends. > > Should I open a bug to track this feature request? > there's already a bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25913 > regards, > Stefano > > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Introduction-to- > Plotting.html#Introduction-to-Plotting >
