Thread: [matplotlib-devel] Toolbar "Close" button

I recommend removing the "Close the Figure" button from the toolbar.
It just destroys the widget / exits the program, which you can already
do by clicking the close button that the window manager provides.
The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, Chapter 5 Toolbars, says
"Don't add buttons for Help, Close or Quit to your toolbar by default,
as these are rarely used and the space is better used for more useful
controls."
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/toolbars.html
This reference is for GNOME/GTK+ applications and other windowing
environments will have their own guidelines, but I think they agree that
Close/Quit buttons on toolbars are not needed.
Check your own system - run some applications you use that have toolbars
and check if there is a quit button, and even if there is would it cause
a problem if it wasn't there?
Steve

John,
I'd like to request that the matplotlib/examples are made into
executable scripts by adding 
#!/usr/bin/env python
as first line for all examples. This benefits Unix users and has no
effect (as far as I know) for non-Unix users.
It can be done for all scripts from the command line with a 'sh' style
shell, using something like:
cd examples
echo "#!/usr/bin/env python" >/tmp/header
for file in *.py; do
 mv $file ${file}.old
 cat /tmp/header ${file}.old > $file
done
# check the new files look OK and delete *.old
Regards
Steve