I am +1 on rename (through a deprecation cycle). But this could probably be
immediately addressed by simple docstring.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Thomas A Caswell <notifications@github.com

wrote:

As discussed in #4942 (comment)
#4942 (comment)
the 'bbox' kwarg/property is confusing. Most places in mpl 'bbox' means
'the bounding box that the artists falls with in' where as in this case it
is properties to go with a background patch behind the text artist.

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