#13827: Allow more customization in GraphPlot
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Reporter: ppurka | Owner: jason, ncohen, rlm
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: graph theory | Resolution:
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Comment (by jmantysalo):
Replying to [comment:12 ppurka]:
> In my opinion, it will get unwieldy if all the options are put into
plot. Making a plot will involve a massive single line of `p.plot(shapes=,
colors=, fonts=,....)`. Breaking it up into multiple methods should make
it clearer which methods control which aspects of the graph.
It depends. User may not use all possible options. And if he/she uses,
then it won't be that much easier with several lines of settings. And one
can say
{{{
edge_colors = ... # something complicated
...
vertex_shapes = ... # something complicated
...plot(edge_colors=edge_colors, ...)
}}}
> From the programming point of view, it should also make the functions
more manageable. Otherwise, all of that code will end up in a single huge
function `plot`.
I guess that backend should have `set_edges` and so on. But `plot` can
call them.
I believe that there is not very good solution. There are just too many
options that could be useful to someone. OTOH reducing possible options
sounds odd. So we can only make sure that the design is as orthogonal as
it can.
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