Comment 10 for bug 278764

For some reason I thought I was subscribed to this bug but I wasn't. So as the guy who reverted the backend from GTKAgg to the upstream default (Agg) I have to admit that I didn't fully understand that Agg wasn't a GUI backend. I've always used GTKAgg, so my bad there.

What I was trying to get around was having so many Gnome/GTK dependencies by default for the KDE/Qt users. So the immediate thing we can do is make TkAgg the default backend (I thought it was actually in Debian). For Jaunty I'm thinking that maybe we should work on creating python-matplotlib-gtk and python-matplotlib-qt metapackages that would allow people to avoid pulling in a lot of deps they don't want.