Re: RFC: Graphing widgets for GTK+

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:20:09PM +0930, Kieran Clancy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (I hope this is the right place to post this.)
> 
> I am in my uni break for the next 3 weeks and am interested in doing
> some big development on GTK. One thing I thought seemed lacking in GTK
> is a set of widgets for easily producing simple graphs. I've written
> up a rationale and a fairly exhaustive list of _possible_ features
> here:
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/KieranClancy/GtkGraphing
> 
> I am looking for comments regarding the best way to arrange the
> infrastructure for this (name spaces, gobject stuff), from the
> perspective of the developers of GTK, with a view that it might one
> day be included in GTK. That way it can be used by applications in the
> Gnome desktop (instead of having many separate graphing
> implementations).
> 
> Any comments would be very appreciated.

You may want to have a look at the charting interfaces in goffice.
They offer a gobject friendly way to produce the charts used in
gnumeric, abiword, and gnucash.