On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Andy Clayton wrote: > 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.
ISTM that it would make more sense to not have the scheme (guile) intermediation and to do everything in javascript. Otherwise, +1. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
