[kde-edu]: attempt at a KPlotWidget replacement based on QGraphicsView

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

I spent the weekend trying to work out a replacement for KPlotWidget based on 
QGraphicsView.  It seemed like a good idea, because QGraphicsView already 
encapsulates the separation of Data space and pixel space, uses a model/view 
architecture, and is supposed to be fast.

Unfortunately, I am rather disappointed with the results.  There's no easy way 
in QGraphicsView to accomodate the axis labels and tick labels, because the 
entire Widget is devoted to the View of the data; there's no way to set a 
QRect for the View that is smaller than the widget itself.  So I ended up 
creating a QFrame containing a 3x3 grid of widgets, where the center widget 
is the QGraphicsView, and the eight around the edge are to hold the axis 
information.  That's pretty ugly.

It also seems much slower than the old KPlotWidget.  For example, when 
resizing the plot, there are noticeable redraw lags.  In general, it just 
feels like I am using a square peg for a round hole.

It's possible that some of these shortcomings are just because I'm using the 
wrong approach, but I'm ready to give up on it.  If anyone else wants to try 
doing something with the code I've written, I can make it available.

Let me know,
Jason

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