On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:20:44PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
>
> Did you read Rob's description of how he uses graphics? It's the
> opposite of your way of doing things (he defaults of off globally and
> only enables display for a short time while fiddling locally).
Here is Rob's mail:
1) A large document; and I've choosen in the prefs to not display the graphs.
When typing text that is related to a particular graph, I would like to
display that graph temporarily, while typing/altering the text.
In this case, I would not want to touch the global preference for this.
2) creating a new graph; I want to set the size, clip bounding boxes etc.
until it looks okay; I must select to display this graph until I'm
done with the settings; after that I'll select "default", i.e. don't
display.
I believe that for this mode of work, the following interface would be better:
in the global preferences you choose display type (mono/grey/color),
and display mode: display/don't display/display only when dialog is open.
With this interface, Rob would select the latter option, and would just need
to click on a figure to view it temporarily.
We may still need a local "don't display" button.
The reasoning is that some figures might be very complex so viewing them
may take a very long time.
