[matplotlib-devel] cocoaagg figure not have a navigation toolbar?

2014-11-22 Thread Benjamin Root
I don't have a mac to double-check, but reading through the backend_cocoaagg.py, I don't see any creation of a navigation toolbar? Is this assumption right? Thanks! Ben Root -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterpri

Re: [matplotlib-devel] chicken/egg (or figure/canvas) question

2014-11-22 Thread Benjamin Root
Actually, I think I found it. It looks like each backend defines a new_figure_manager() function. Then, in backends/__init__.py, not only do the aliased FigureManager and FigureCanvas objects get imported from the appropriate module, but so does that function. It is pylab_setup() in the backends/__

[matplotlib-devel] chicken/egg (or figure/canvas) question

2014-11-22 Thread Benjamin Root
I thought I had this understood, but now I am confused while working on my last chapter. I know that the Figure object never directly creates its own canvas object. It starts off with a None object as a placeholder and waits for one to be given to it. However, I can only find one place where the fi

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib's new default colormap

2014-11-22 Thread Thomas Caswell
The contents of that talk are also in our documentation http://matplotlib.org/users/colormaps.html Tom On Sat Nov 22 2014 at 9:33:11 AM gary ruben wrote: > There was a talk by Kristen Thyng at scipy2014 that might be a good > backgrounder for this: > http://pyvideo.org/video/2769/perceptions-of

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib's new default colormap

2014-11-22 Thread gary ruben
There was a talk by Kristen Thyng at scipy2014 that might be a good backgrounder for this: http://pyvideo.org/video/2769/perceptions-of-matplotlib-colormaps At the end she references this site http://mycarta.wordpress.com/ of Matteo Niccoli which is full of good content. I wonder if it's worth con

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to move beyond JET as the default matplotlib colormap

2014-11-22 Thread Benjamin Root
We now have the style system in-place. I envision the 1.5 release as having the attempt at encoding the current visual style as "classic" (which would be default), and to put together a "bleeding" (or "trendy" or "hipster") style that would encode many of the proposed changes to the defaults. Come

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better defaults all around?

2014-11-22 Thread gary ruben
A few thoughts to add to the excellent ones to date, to do with colorbar behaviour. My general comment would be that if the axis tick formatter defaults are changed not to forget about the colorbar as I typically find it needs more tweaking than the main axes. I'll make a couple of suggestions, but

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better defaults all around?

2014-11-22 Thread Todd
I think using native icons would be the best scenario, at least whet the backend and platform support it. On Nov 22, 2014 9:08 AM, "Nicolas P. Rougier" wrote: > > I would be also quite interested in having better defaults. My list of > "complains" are: > > * Easy way to get only two lines for ax

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to move beyond JET as the default matplotlib colormap

2014-11-22 Thread Phil Elson
Given the workload that making a release causes, is it necessary to put out a v1.4.3 at all? On a similar sounding argument, given that the removal of CXX doesn't break user APIs, and has been on master for several weeks with fewer than anticipated side-effects, do we even need a v1.5? Essentially,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better defaults all around?

2014-11-22 Thread Nicolas P. Rougier
I would be also quite interested in having better defaults. My list of "complains" are: * Easy way to get only two lines for axis (left and down, instead of four) * Better default font (Source Sans Pro / Source Code Pro for example (open source)) * Better default colormap * Better axis limit (