Re: [Gretl-users] Could we please make the default graphing style nicer?

On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Artur T. wrote: > Dear all, > > this is a proposal which I have had  in mind for a long time. Before > starting, this thread is really just meant as a proposal, so please > don't take it personally at all! :-) > > We all like gretl and gnuplot very much. But let's be honest, > gnuplot's default plotting settings are not fancy at all. When I > introduce gretl to potentially interested people, I instantly add > "Not, this program is not from the 1990s, and yes, you can make the > graphs much more fancy by your own". [...]

I wonder if there is something like "themes" in gnuplot nowadays. Because diving into the plotting details and tune every detail is

Point taken; we can probably do something to make gretl's gnuplot plots look better by default -- and maybe also set up a choice of "themes".

One observation on your side-by-side scatterplot comparison. The one on the right (with modifications relative to the gretl default) looks more appealing and up-to-date, I agree. But the choice of filled circles to plot all points results in significant information loss. In the old-style one on the left you can tell when "CIT=0" and "CIT=1" points coincide, but on the right the CIT=1 points overwrite the CIT=0 ones, with no hint (or none I can detect) that there's anything "underneath".