On Wednesday 28 September 2011 16:43:59 Eric Bélanger wrote: > 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 Thanks for pointing it out. I have added a comment there. Sorry for sending an email before browsing the bug reports. Stefano
