GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 641901
x-axis labels in column chart should be formattable
Last modified: 2011-09-02 15:29:25 UTC
Currently when you create a column chart the format for the labels on the x-axis cannot be set. This would be desirable, especially with regard to column charts created by the histogram tool. Note that histogram charts already allow that. Also the format of the y-axis of the column charts permits setting the format.
I think this is related to the discrete status of x axis in column plots (and y axis in bar plot).
It's also related to #414383.
I don't see the connection with #414383.
I just think that we need a specific property page for discrete axes to fix that (if it can be fixed at all).
I obviously don't know enough about that situation. But since we retrieve data from teh worksheet I don't see why formatting that would be any differnet then for other sheets. Just because we show the values say as 0.0000 on the worksheet we should be able to show it as 0.00 on the axis.
The data might be just text for a discrete axis.
So? We can have text in a cell and still have a format for that cell. Of course it doesn't give us anything new in that case. But what if the data is not text?
You are probably right. I need to investigate things further, will do ASAP.
Created attachment 180901 [details] [review] make formatting work We must be sure that this is really what we want, and extensively test.
We probably should commit this and test it while we are in a development version.
The patch was obsolete. Commited something similar. Needs testing. This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.