On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Jeffrey Blackburne <je...@mit.edu> wrote: > Actually, I have been able to do it like this: > > mpl.rcParams['patch.linewidth'] = 0.2 > > Hope that helps, and sorry I didn't reply sooner.
Of course this will affect any other patches in your figure (eg Rectangles from histogram plots, etc). I am not opposed to adding some legend.frame rc parameters. Part of the purpose of the rc file is to work like a style sheet, so if you are writing a book or an article with a bunch of figures, and you want them all the have the same look-and-feel, you can customize the defaults externally w/o a bunch of boilerplate in your scripts that can be difficult to maintain. It seems like the legend frame properties fit into this category. In particular, the frame alpha is one I almost always set to semi-transparent so you can see data behind the legend, which is boilerplate I might be happy to do away with if I had an rc param. I would be amenable to adding: legend.frame.facecolor : 'white' legend.frame.edgecolor : 'white' legend.frame.linewidth : 1.0 legend.frame.alpha : 1.0 but I'd like to hear from others (Eric?) who are already not happy with the size of our rc file. Although this change would increase the line count, it doesn't increase the complexity much if at all in my view and is somewhat useful. It would imply some mild potential breakage, because currently the legend face and edge colors use the axes colors (which is why it would be nice if we had containment/inheritance for our rc params so they could inherit from parent) so if someone has tweaked their old axes.facecolor, they would need to add legend.frame.facecolor under this change to remain compatible. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
