Matthew R. Becker
Matthew R. Becker
Yeah. I ran into that. Cairo has pycario which should put everything in Python too. I will look again.
I have been reading the pyx docs and their support for transparency seems limited. http://pyx.sourceforge.net/manual/color.html#transparency This is the major motivation for me for moving to a new backend. Thus I...
This all sounds clunky and slow. I am thinking supporting both backends (plotutils and Cairo+gtk) is the way to go. If you don't have gtk, you can revert back to...
That sounds good. Cairo's docs seem to imply that it really wants you to use gtk. But hopefully this is not a strict requirement.
I think Cairo with pygtk would fix this.
I see what you mean. For Cairo, you don't get X11 window management without pygtk. We could bundle plotuitls source code and have the Cairo backend be optional.
This would render the whole thing pip installable while allowing us to use a modern lib for notebooks etc.
I went down the modify plotutils road. It is a bear and prob not worth the time. Better to move to a new backend that supports an alpha channel, etc.
OK. Then I should do this next before much more new stuff is added. This way as much history as possible is saved.
Yes. This is a known problem. Cc @erykoff