>> 2) It was pointed out that there is a strange connection between the color >> cycle and the lines.color rcParam. This connection looks to me like a bit >> of legacy that can be dropped with little risk of pain in user land, since >> the default would still be to have the initial color in the cycle (blue) be >> the same as the default lines.color (blue). The proposed difference is that >> setting lines.color would have no effect on the color_cycle, and vice-versa. >> John, I think the present connection dates all the way back to your work >> around svn r500 or so; please tell me if there is some compelling reason to >> keep it. It appears to me that breaking the connection would make both the >> code and the actual mpl behavior simpler and less surprising, with no loss >> of useful functionality. > > I think deprecating lines.color and making the first element of the > cycle be the default color makes the most sense.
The only problem is that lines.color is the default for LineCollection and Line2D, both of which are fairly separate from Axes, so having them default to rcParams['axes.color_cycle'][0] seems a little odd. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
