Hi all,
I've been playing around with using Flot
(http://code.google.com/p/flot/) to replace the goffice report graphs,
and it seems to work well. It (re?)introduces interactivity and overall
looks much more modern. It's rather clean too, as the existing guile
modules are simply changed to output the relevant javascript instead of
the <object> tag. So two questions:
* Would such an approach be considered for inclusion in trunk? If so,
then I'll cleanup my patches and post/attach to a bug for comments. Or
would a different approach be preferred?
* Assuming inclusion would there be support for dropping goffice and
gtkhtml? Remember this would be trunk/2.6, not 2.4.x. While it would be
easy enough to have the guile modules switch between their current
output and the JS output depending on if webkit is enabled, I'm not sure
that is the best choice. The biggest reason I see for removing them is
to keep a more cohesive product. It avoids issues where users need to
wonder "Do I have the gnucash with the new graphs?" or "Why does this
review/tutorial/blog's gnucash have sexy graphs while mine are blah?".
In addition dropping unnecessary dependencies and code, thereby lowering
maintenance and duplicated development effort, always seems like a good
thing.
Regards,
Andy Clayton
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