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only use tkagg or agg backends? #7
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Nowadays the Tk backend works pretty well and is available everywhere. Maybe we should just use it (or the Agg backend for non-interactive code) and drop support for all of the other backends (which complicate the code a lot for not much benefit).
@PaulSoderlind, you mentioned wanting the Qt5 backend; could you elaborate?
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PaulSoderlind commentedon Apr 15, 2022
I don't have a strong preference and I might well use Tk from now on.
I previously used Qt5 since it had two advantages compared to Tk: crashed less often and did not require me to click the figure window in order to get back to the REPL/editor (Windows 10). On the other hand, Tk seems to scale better with the screen dpi.
ufechner7 commentedon Feb 1, 2026
I find the QT backend much more beautiful. And it works well.