Hi Derek,

Can you perhaps ask the Fink developers to provide a framework installation of 
Python? Most matplotlib users who ran into framework-related bugs were Fink 
users.

Best,
-Michiel.

--- On Mon, 4/15/13, Derek Homeier <de...@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

> From: Derek Homeier <de...@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de>
> Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] Planning for 1.3.0
> To: "matplotlib development list" <matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Monday, April 15, 2013, 11:00 AM
> Hi Michiel,
> 
> On 15.04.2013, at 6:03AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldeh...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > --- On Sun, 4/14/13, Derek Homeier <de...@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de>
> wrote:
> >> Of course if there are any other possible negative
> effects
> >> besides the window handling, I'd take your point.
> > 
> > Several bugs have been reported in the past that turned
> out to be due to Python not being installed as a framework.
> For example, the file selection window when saving a figure
> doesn't respond. This has been a major hassle, since each of
> those bug reports take time to investigate before realizing
> that it is due to the Python installation.
> 
> OK, that is a valid reason! I vaguely remember some problems
> with that in the past,
> though haven't experienced any of that in a long time (just
> tested 'Save File', and I've
> been regularly using 'Configure Subplots'). But this is
> probably a case where a
> Warning might not keep all users from filing a bug. :-(
> The QT4Agg backend has its ups as well, though there still
> seem to be some quirks,
> too (e.g. the zoom rectangle only shows up with the left and
> lower border); I will probably
> become a fan of the line configuration tool that allows you
> to switch back to linear from a
> log axis scale (in the command line there seems to be no
> return from plt.semilogy() or
> plt.loglog())!
> 
> Cheers,
>            
>            
> Derek
> 
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