On 06/08/2010 10:48 PM, Matthias Michler wrote:
> On Friday, April 23, 2010 11:08:50 am Matthias Michler wrote:
>> Hello list, Hello developers,
>>
>> I'd like to summarize my discussion with Gökhan ("Turning off minor grids
>> on log scaled plot") in the last days and propose two patches.
>>
>> The first patch adds the keyword argument 'which' from the axis.grid to the
>> method 'grid' of the Axes (axes_grid_for_major_and_minor_ticks.patch). This
>> allows to change the drawing of grid lines for x- and y-axis at the same
>> time.
>>
>> Furthemore Gökhan proposed to toggle *all* (namely major and minor tick)
>> grid lines after pressing the key 'g'. Therefore the call
>> event.inaxes.grid(), which toggles only the (default) major tick grid
>> lines, is replaced by event.inaxes.grid(which='majorminor') (see
>> toggling_all_tick_grid_lines.patch).
>> This yields the expected behavior if e.g. all (major and minor) tick grid
>> lines are shown, because than toggling the grid means to remove all grid
>> lines. But to be honest I'm not sure the latter is the intended behavior in
>> all cases. For instance in the case of shown major tick lines toggling all
>> means turning off major tick lines and turning on minor tick lines by
>> pressing 'g'. This sounds a little bit crazy to me, although that's
>> what toggling is about.

I think that behavior would indeed drive the user crazy, so I would not 
want to commit a patch that does that.

Eric

>>
>> Thanks in advance for any comments.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Matthias
>
> Hello list,
>
> Does anybody think the proposed patches could be useful?
>
> If somebody would benefit from them I'd be happy to place an updated version 
> of
> the patch(es) at the patch tracker.
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments.
>
> Kind regards,
> Matthias
>
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