[rrd-users] Legend in rrdtool-1.4.2

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Stefan M. Brandl wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:50:28PM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Today Stefan M. Brandl wrote:
> >
> > > Hello List,
> > > in rrtool versions prior to 1.4
> > > the colors in the graph legend were drawed in squares.
> > > With 1.4.2 areas are drawed as squares and lines as a diagonal slash.
> > > I didn't find a option to get the "old" behavior back.
> > > Isn't this possible?
> >
> > not presently ... did you like the old look better ?
> >
>
> The new look is realy nicer, but with the old style
> it was easier to differentiate if you have very similar
> colors or very light colors.
> e.g. I have one graph where a line is drawed with color #eeeeee.
> With 1.4.2 you see absolute nothing in the legend ;-)
>
> Would be nice to get (via option?) the old look back.

well I guess to be true to my 'keep backward compatible' it should
probably be an option to enable the new look ... I agree.

gruss
tobi

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