Bug#668955: gnuplot-x11: fonts are not very readable with the new default terminal 'qt'

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: gnuplot-x11
Version: 4.6.0-5
Severity: normal

The new default terminal 'qt' doesn't have very readable fonts,
compared to 'wxt'. See the different between

$ gnuplot -persist <<EOF
set termoption font ',5'
plot '-' using 1:2 t '' with line
0 0  
10 10
e  
EOF

and

$ gnuplot -persist <<EOF
set terminal wxt
set termoption font ',5'
plot '-' using 1:2 t '' with line
0 0  
10 10
e  
EOF

(on large graphs, fontsize 5 may be needed to avoid text overlapping).

The fact that one cannot zoom with the qt terminal (bug 668690) makes
the problem worse.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnuplot-x11 depends on:
ii  gnuplot-nox     4.6.0-5
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  libcairo2       1.10.2-7
ii  libedit2        2.11-20080614-3
ii  libgcc1         1:4.7.0-3
ii  libgd2-xpm      2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0    2.32.0-4
ii  liblua5.1-0     5.1.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0   1.30.0-1
ii  libqt4-network  4:4.7.4-3
ii  libqt4-svg      4:4.7.4-3
ii  libqtcore4      4:4.7.4-3
ii  libqtgui4       4:4.7.4-3
ii  libstdc++6      4.7.0-3
ii  libwxbase2.8-0  2.8.12.1-7
ii  libwxgtk2.8-0   2.8.12.1-7
ii  libx11-6        2:1.4.4-4

gnuplot-x11 recommends no packages.

gnuplot-x11 suggests no packages.

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