Re: [matplotlib-devel] Release schedule for version 1.0.1?

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

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> Just as a quick question that I would like to throw out.  It isn't a bug,
> but rather an aesthetics issue that I caused for the version 1.0 release.
>
> With allowing 3d plots to be made subplottable, the margins for the plot
> area became a lot smaller than for the original method of producing 3d
> plots.  This is because of the default region for subaxes, which usually
> matches the plotting region for a normal plot.  However, 3d plots have been
> explicitly setting the viewing area to take up the entire axes rather than
> obeying the rcParams.  With subplotting (or even creating a single plot
> using fig.gca() ), the rcParams override the explicit setting of the plot
> area.  Therefore, 3d plots appear "squished" if created using the
> projection='3d' approach.
>
> My question is this: Would it at all be feasible (or even desirable) to have
> some sort of ability to specify defaults that are specific to a particular
> axes type?  Currently, the code for setting the parameters will grab the
> rcparams if the figure is being newly created, or will copy the parameters
> from an existing figure in the case of creating subplots in an existing
> figure.  This assumes a one-size-fits-all which 3d plots might need to be an
> exception.

Punting on the larger question.... others may have an opinion.

If it is a feature not a bug, can you commit new baseline images for
the buildbot and see if we can get it to go green?

JDH