defaults and matplotlibrc

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Norbert,

Your change in commenting out almost everything in matplotlibrc was a good one, but I think it had an unintended consequence: it changed the way everything looks because the defaults in __init__.py were not the same as the ones in matplotlibrc. To my eye and on my machine the matplotlibrc defaults are better, and my guess is that this is because over a period of time people tuned the matplotlibrc values but left the __init__.py values alone--after all, they were normally not used. In any case, I went ahead and changed __init__.py to match matplotlibrc.

Eric

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Eric Firing schrieb:

Norbert,

Your change in commenting out almost everything in matplotlibrc was a
good one, but I think it had an unintended consequence: it changed the
way everything looks because the defaults in __init__.py were not the
same as the ones in matplotlibrc. To my eye and on my machine the
matplotlibrc defaults are better, and my guess is that this is because
over a period of time people tuned the matplotlibrc values but left the
__init__.py values alone--after all, they were normally not used. In
any case, I went ahead and changed __init__.py to match matplotlibrc.
  
Thanks! I only did a spot check on some of the values and did not find
any differences. I agree that the values in the old matplotlibrc are
likely to be the more reasonable defaults. Furthermore, anybody who
didn't think about the issue would probably have used these values
anyway, so your changes should give the best backwards compatibility.