Horizontal Bar Plots

[kaimikael]

What's your use case?

Often Bar Plots have categories that are names. They are difficult to render along the x axis, but will fit well along the y axis (see attached chart from Excel).

What's your proposed solution?

It should be possible to add a checkbox to the Bar Plot to render the bars horizontally.

Are there any alternative solutions?

[janezd]

Short summary of today's discussion: yes, we should do it. We'd add this as an option (checkbox). Also sorting would be useful.

Problem: the current plot is based on pyqtgraph. If we simply rotate it, it will still be squashed. This may require reimplementing the plot, which is almost as rewriting the whole widget from scratch.