[Kst] kdeextragear-2/kst/kst

[C. Barth Netterfield]

On Monday 26 July 2004 03:44 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> On Monday 26 July 2004 15:07, C. Barth Netterfield wrote:
> > I'm fairly certain this is not a good idea.
> >
> > Here are two common cases:
> >
> > What if the user is plotting something whose Y axis goes to +-10^-10? 
> > All is well with the old behavior, and not at all well with the new
> > behavior.
> >
> > What if the user is plotting something whose X axis goes from 10^9 to
> > 10^9 + 100 (eg, time_t seconds)?  It doesn't take much zooming before the
> > range labels saturate, but the change here does not fix it.
> >
> > The actual solution will have to involve new label formats (like a left
> > side base, and then tick mark offsets if the label dynamic range gets
> > saturated).
> >
> > But I think this change is bad.  Please revert (or discuss why it is ok
> > as it is).
>
>   Indeed there are problems which is why we haven't done it in the past
> (you and I discussed this over a year ago I think).  However there is a
> point, somewhere, where we have zoomed in "too far".  The trick is finding
> out what this is (defining it).

It is not clear to me that there is such a point.