@@ -253,17 +253,21 @@ a file:
253253============ ================================================================
254254Backend Description
255255============ ================================================================
256- GTKAgg Agg rendering to a :term: `GTK ` canvas (requires PyGTK _)
257- GTK GDK rendering to a :term: `GTK ` canvas (not recommended)
256+ GTKAgg Agg rendering to a :term: `GTK ` 2.x canvas (requires PyGTK _)
257+ GTK3Agg Agg rendering to a :term: `GTK ` 3.x canvas (requires PyGObject _)
258+ GTK GDK rendering to a :term: `GTK ` 2.x canvas (not recommended)
258259 (requires PyGTK _)
259- GTKCairo Cairo rendering to a :term: `GTK ` Canvas (requires PyGTK _)
260+ GTKCairo Cairo rendering to a :term: `GTK ` 2.x canvas (requires PyGTK _
261+ and pycairo _)
262+ GTK3Cairo Cairo rendering to a :term: `GTK ` 3.x canvas (requires PyGObject _
263+ and pycairo _)
260264WXAgg Agg rendering to to a :term: `wxWidgets ` canvas
261265 (requires wxPython _)
262266WX Native :term: `wxWidgets ` drawing to a :term: `wxWidgets ` Canvas
263267 (not recommended) (requires wxPython _)
264268TkAgg Agg rendering to a :term: `Tk ` canvas (requires TkInter _)
265269QtAgg Agg rendering to a :term: `Qt ` canvas (requires PyQt _)
266- (not recommended ; use Qt4Agg)
270+ (deprecated ; use Qt4Agg)
267271Qt4Agg Agg rendering to a :term: `Qt4 ` canvas (requires PyQt4 _)
268272FLTKAgg Agg rendering to a :term: `FLTK ` canvas (requires pyFLTK _)
269273 (not widely used; consider TKAgg, GTKAgg, WXAgg, or
@@ -280,6 +284,8 @@ macosx Cocoa rendering in OSX windows
280284.. _`Cairo graphics` : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)
281285.. _`Gimp Drawing Kit` : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDK
282286.. _PyGTK : http://www.pygtk.org
287+ .. _PyGObject : https://live.gnome.org/PyGObject
288+ .. _pycairo : http://www.cairographics.org/pycairo/
283289.. _wxPython : http://www.wxpython.org/
284290.. _TkInter : http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter
285291.. _PyQt : http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro
@@ -425,6 +431,3 @@ generate one or more figures and display them before ending
425431or generating a new set of figures. In that case, use
426432:func: `~matplotlib.pyplot.show ` to display the figure(s) and
427433to block execution until you have manually destroyed them.
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