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anntzer opened this issue Nov 12, 2015 · 4 comments
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axes selection in axes editor #5468

anntzer opened this issue Nov 12, 2015 · 4 comments
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anntzer commented Nov 12, 2015

Currently, when there are multiple axes, the curves line and axes editor (aka the green tick button) first pops a window to select the axes, with entries such as

title (<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot object at 0x...>) # if there is a title
<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot object at 0x...> # if there is no title

I would suggest switching this to something more user-friendly such as

title
<anonymous axes>

possibly keeping the class name and object id as tooltips.

Thoughts?
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mdboom commented Nov 12, 2015

Cc: @mfitzp

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anntzer commented Nov 21, 2015

While working on this I realized that the selection dialog (backend_qt5.py lines 620+) would default to a combination of the axes title, axes ylabel, axes label and axes repr (depending on what is available). In particular I had not noticed that axes can have a label set by set_label (like any artist). Is this label used anywhere else?

anntzer added a commit to anntzer/matplotlib that referenced this issue Dec 13, 2015
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Nicer axes names in selector for figure options.
710cb7f 
Replace the old label, which included the legthy repr of the axes
object, to a nicer label which emphasizes the title or axes labels
(depending on what is present).  Also drops the use of the label of the
Axes object itself, for which I haven't found any other reference or use
in general.  (Another option would be to use solely `Axes.get_label()`
when defined, as this doesn't seem to have any other use.)

See matplotlib#5468.
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@anntzer
Nicer axes names in selector for figure options.
d981e2b 
Replace the old label, which included the legthy repr of the axes
object, to a nicer label which emphasizes the title or axes labels
(depending on what is present).  Also drops the use of the label of the
Axes object itself, for which I haven't found any other reference or use
in general.  (Another option would be to use solely `Axes.get_label()`
when defined, as this doesn't seem to have any other use.)

See matplotlib#5468.
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anntzer commented Dec 20, 2015

Closed by #5667.

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