Make our "inline" matplotlib rc_param overwrite a classic-inline theme #9710

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1. Carreau

   added this to the 5.1 milestone on Jul 6, 2016
2. mpacer commented on Jul 25, 2016

   

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   Breaking this down into at least three(four) different parts:

   1. establish the properties of the current inline theme (e.g., transparent background, fig size)
   2. Take properties and make into matplotlib theme
   3. Use entrypoints to register theme with matplotlib (if possible w/o using setuptools)
   4. have %matplotlib inline use the theme by default
3. mpacer commented on Jul 25, 2016

   

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   Ok, so 0. can be found in this commit in ipykernel

   as of right now its

   rc = Dict({'figure.figsize': (6.0,4.0),
           # play nicely with white background in the Qt and notebook frontend
           'figure.facecolor': (1,1,1,0),
           'figure.edgecolor': (1,1,1,0),
           # 12pt labels get cutoff on 6x4 logplots, so use 10pt.
           'font.size': 10,
           # 72 dpi matches SVG/qtconsole
           # this only affects PNG export, as SVG has no dpi setting
           'savefig.dpi': 72,
           # 10pt still needs a little more room on the xlabel:
           'figure.subplot.bottom' : .125
           },
           help="""Subset of matplotlib rcParams that should be different for the
           inline backend."""
       ).tag(config=True)

   Next is to figure out the matplotlib theme syntax
4. tacaswell commented on Jul 29, 2016

   

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   I suggest that you you do 0 and 1 via by implementing matplotlib/matplotlib#6738 and then using it from inside an ipython notebook with mpl 1.5

   Or just start from https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/classic.mplstyle

   You can just add a path to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/style/core.py#L33 mpl should probably grow a nicer API for managing that list.
5. minrk

   modified the milestones: 5.2, 5.1 on Aug 9, 2016
6. takluyver

   modified the milestones: 5.3, 5.2 on Jan 18, 2017
7. takluyver commented on Feb 23, 2017

   

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   This has been bumped through several minor release milestones now. Is anyone intending to work on it, or shall we wishlist it?
8. Carreau

   modified the milestones: wishlist, 5.3 on Feb 23, 2017
9. Carreau commented on Feb 23, 2017

   

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11. has2k1

    added a commit that references this issue on Apr 25, 2017

    Refactor themes & options, add text margins & more

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12. mgeier commented on Sep 3, 2022

    

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    Just a little update: the RC overrides have been removed in ipython/matplotlib-inline#14

    From today's POV, would it still make sense to create an "inline" theme?
13. fperez commented on Sep 4, 2022

    

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    My thought is no - that we should finish fixing any small defaults deviations we might have there (looking at the dpi issue you mentioned) but otherwise let users access the normal matplotlib mechanisms as much as possible.

    I think we should close this, but will wait a bit in case there's a difference of opinion.

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