PlotDrop

A minimal GNOME frontend to GNUPlot.
jcspray@icculus.org
http://icculus.org/~jcspray/plotdrop/

PlotDrop is designed for quick and simple visualisation of 2D data series. It is not intended to encompass anywhere near the full capabilities of GNUPlot.

PlotDrop is intended to be used in tandem with an external filesystem browser such as GNOME's nautilus or KDE's konqueror, whereby data files may be added by dragging them from the browser to the file list.

Data files should be simple flat data of the kind preferred by GNUPlot, like
1.0 3.6
2.0 5.2
4.0 5.1

The series of a datafile to plot is set as an integer in the plot list. To plot more than one series simply add a file more than once and set a different series number on each entry.

Error bar (+/- y) sizes may be specified in an extra column directly after every data column.

Compilation

PlotDrop is tested with GCC 3.3. It requires the following libraries:

GTK+ 2.4 (earlier versions untested)
libgnomevfs
libglade

Just type "make".

Installation

PlotDrop may be run uninstalled from the directory in which it was compiled. Alternatively, it may be installed systemwide by issuing the command "make install" with root privileges as appropriate.