Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Nicolas Rougier
<Nic...@in...>wrote:

>
>
> Thanks a lot for this MEP and I would gladly contribute to the new gallery.
>

Thanks for adding the link to your gallery. I meant to include it (that's
where I got the idea for a "showcase" section) but it slipped through.



> From my own experience with the current gallery, I would recommend to have
> simple scripts that illustrate one feature only, it make things more clear
> IMHO.


I definitely agree. That's more clearly stated in the MEP, now.


> From my attempt at making some alternative gallery (
> http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/coding/gallery/), I would also recommend a
> standard size for figures unless a different size is strictly necessary.


I agree, but I'm not sure if this should be controlled by the example
script, or if the thumbnail generator should force a specific thumbnail
size. Regardless, most examples shouldn't be changing the default figure
size (since they should be focused on changes pertinent to a single
function).


> For section names, maybe we can use several different schemes with same
> figures ?


I think this would be better suited for a tagging system, which I think is
complementary to the gallery sections. I believe Ben started working on a
tagging system, but then life got in the way :)

Also, one important thing is to have a page with all the figures such one
> can browse visually all the examples.
>

 Agreed. I don't think the idea of the gallery should change---just the
organization of it.

Cheers,
-Tony