Re: [spyder] Spyder Looks

2015-01-28 Thread Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-np838o0q8yE/VMiZuzJ8zYI/AAAC4T8/MXQ0VymzJ_8/s1600/Canopy_OSX_mayavi-600x367.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-u-DN7dhVmiY/VMiZrspah5I/AAAC4T0/i_cTdQrwRu4/s1600/Canopy_OSX_mayavi-600x367.jpg Thanks for sharing *I know all this are personal

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread Yuxiang Wang
One thought about the default setting: Would you think for IPython QtConsole, the Automatic figure would be better than the Inline? The reason for that is: 1) Matlab used a pop-out figure, which is what matplotlib originally set out to mimic; 2) For a scientific use, the interactive plotting

Re: [spyder] Re: Seems like a bug (and really bothers me)

2015-01-28 Thread Yuxiang Wang
Thank you Adrian for checking! I just installed a fresh version of WinPython 3.4.2.4 64-bit, and it still wouldn't work. I guess this might be a Windows-specific issue. -Shawn On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 3:00:41 PM UTC-5, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 01/28/2015 11:10 AM, Yuxiang Wang wrote:

Re: [spyder] Re: Some preference problem

2015-01-28 Thread Junjie Liao
The font family I'm using is DejaVu Sans Mono(it's actually default). On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4:02:47 PM UTC-5, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 01/26/2015 12:23 PM, Yuxiang Wang wrote: Junjie, Do you mean that in your Spyder editor, when you type _ it won't show up? To add to the

[spyder] Re: Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread André Roberge
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 19:38:17 UTC-4, André Roberge wrote: One big issue for me: having the possibility to change the default language of the UI. Yes, I know, it picks it from the LANG environment. But, I do not want to change it for all my programs; and I would like to switch

[spyder] Re: Some preference problem

2015-01-28 Thread Junjie Liao
Yes, you are correct. On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 3:23:11 PM UTC-5, Yuxiang Wang wrote: Junjie, Do you mean that in your Spyder editor, when you type _ it won't show up? Shawn On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 3:02:59 PM UTC-5, Junjie Liao wrote: Hi guys, I'm just a beginner in using

Re: [spyder] Spyder Looks

2015-01-28 Thread Todd
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos goanp...@gmail.com wrote: So in general, pretty similar and a default Clean looks in Spyder which I really like. Now the remarks: - I do not like the boxes that get drawn around the title of each dockwidget (e.g. Object

Re: [spyder] Spyder Looks

2015-01-28 Thread Todd
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Ronan Paixão ronanpai...@gmail.com wrote: Here's my opinions. Just for the record, I'm not a designer, but then I have seen things evolve for many years (since the Win 3.1 years) and even though I'm not an artist myself, I like to think I can see the details.

Re: [spyder] Spyder Looks

2015-01-28 Thread Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos
Hi Todd Thanks for the reply. I am aware many things are platform dependent, but I work on Windows and Ubuntu and I get the same results I described. I already found a solution to make the look consistent and nice (when I start the PR I will post the link to it) In the meantime, it would

Re: [spyder] Re: Seems like a bug (and really bothers me)

2015-01-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/28/2015 01:49 PM, Yuxiang Wang wrote: Thank you Adrian for checking! I just installed a fresh version of WinPython 3.4.2.4 64-bit, and it still wouldn't work. I guess this might be a Windows-specific issue. Best guess a conflict between WinPythons configuration and Spyders for IPython.

Re: [spyder] Re: Seems like a bug (and really bothers me)

2015-01-28 Thread Yuxiang Wang
Thanks Adrian! I'll post one on WinPython to get a try. Thanks again! Shawn On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 4:57:40 PM UTC-5, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 01/28/2015 01:49 PM, Yuxiang Wang wrote: Thank you Adrian for checking! I just installed a fresh version of WinPython 3.4.2.4 64-bit,

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread Yuxiang Wang
One more comment - should be using Qt rather than Automatic. Automatic does not work when I try to close a figure currently in Windows for now (see https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/spyderlib/UyWJe_cbxr8 ). Shawn On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 4:56:29 PM UTC-5, Yuxiang

Re: [spyder] Re: Seems like a bug (and really bothers me)

2015-01-28 Thread Yuxiang Wang
Guys, Got it fixed. I should be using Qt rather than Automatic. Didn't know why it would fail via Automatic though, Shawn On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 4:59:12 PM UTC-5, Yuxiang Wang wrote: Thanks Adrian! I'll post one on WinPython to get a try. Thanks again! Shawn On Wednesday,

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread Julien Hillairet
Dear all, 2015-01-28 22:56 GMT+01:00 Yuxiang Wang wangyuxiang@gmail.com: One thought about the default setting: Would you think for IPython QtConsole, the Automatic figure would be better than the Inline? I totally agree. The first thing we do when we teach Python with Spyder is to

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread josef.pktd
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos goanp...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, thanks for sharing your views on the issues I raised, I really appreciate all your comments and input and Spyder greatly benefits from them. *I know all this are personal opinions but I would

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread Todd
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos goanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again users and devs :) Now looks is not everything and I wanted to also talk a bit a bit about what defaults should we have on Spyder when starting fresh, some widgets and also plugins *The template*

Re: [spyder] Re: Some preference problem

2015-01-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/27/2015 10:38 PM, Junjie Liao wrote: The font family I'm using is DejaVu Sans Mono(it's actually default). Do you see the '_' in other applications on your machine? Have you tried changing the font and seeing what happens? The '_' is just a character, not something that is under the

Re: [spyder] Spyder Looks

2015-01-28 Thread Todd
I have already touched on some issues, but here are my thoughts in general on spyder's appearance: *Icons and Theming* As I have mentioned, I am strongly in favor of native appearance wherever possible. Qt is extremely good at this, and I think it makes for a much better experience overall.

Re: [spyder] Re: Some preference problem

2015-01-28 Thread Junjie Liao
Yes I do see the '_' in other text editor on my computer. The reason why I want to get it displayed correctly is because when I write something like '__main__', I can't see the '_' character and it matters for me. Anyway, I got the '_' displayed correctly after I changed the font to Consolas.

Re: [spyder] Re: Some preference problem

2015-01-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/28/2015 10:24 AM, Junjie Liao wrote: Yes I do see the '_' in other text editor on my computer. The reason why I want to get it displayed correctly is because when I write something like '__main__', I can't see the '_' character and it matters for me. Anyway, I got the '_' displayed

Re: [spyder] Spyder Looks

2015-01-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/28/2015 07:48 AM, Todd wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Ronan Paixão ronanpai...@gmail.com mailto:ronanpai...@gmail.com wrote: Here's my opinions. Just for the record, I'm not a designer, but then I have seen things evolve for many years (since the Win 3.1 years) and

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread Todd
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos goanp...@gmail.com wrote: snip I have some suggestions that I think would improve and simply the general spyder UI. I already explained one, combining the object inspector and online help. The others are below. Note that these are

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/28/2015 09:49 AM, Todd wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos goanp...@gmail.com mailto:goanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again users and devs :) Now looks is not everything and I wanted to also talk a bit a bit about what defaults should we have on

[spyder] Re: Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos
Hi Adrian Thanks for the answers, sincerely the idea of these posts is to explore opinions, because that is at the end all we have, from these opinions interesting ideas come up, even if you (or others) disagree with my opinions. *Seems to me that fixing these is bigger priority then starting

Re: [spyder] Spyder defaults, widgets, plugins and Anaconda

2015-01-28 Thread André Roberge
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 03:49:45 UTC-4, Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos wrote: *Online help* André raises a good point, but it looks so ugly!!! any alternative to this? maybe styling the output with a custom css to make it look consistent and pretty with Spyder then?? Hard-coded