[rrd-users] Legend in rrdtool-1.4.2

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Stefan,

I have put in a new --dynamic-labels option for rrd_graph.
Restoring the classic behaviour by default. This should be in 1.4.3
...

cheers
tobi

Today Tobias Oetiker wrote:

> 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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