Re: [matplotlib-devel] API change in transforms branch

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Dec 6, 2007 8:03 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> It's an open question whether autolayout may start ignoring the adjust
> requests or not as a backward compatibility measure.  I still consider
> this stuff a long way off until it's usable in general.

My feeling is that it is not a good idea to try and support the manual
layout and the autolayout with the same set of parameters, but how to
get this segregation right may be difficult in practice.  Eg, it is
probably better to have something like a vbox and hbox pad that the
user can configure for the autolayout if they want to increase the
whitespace between the axes using autolayout, rather than trying to
support the subplots adjust parameters.    Depending on the
figure.autolayout setting, one might launch a different GUI widget
panel (eg the subplots_adjust widgets if autolayout is False, and a
different widget  with different params if it is True).

JDH