On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Tony Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm, another issue: Using ``imshow(..., plugin='qt')`` doesn't behave correctly (even after the PR above) because the ``show()`` function still uses the default plugin (i.e. not necessarily the qt plugin), so the window opened by ``imshow`` just disappears.

We could stick a use_plugin call inside of qt's imshow. It's kind of nasty to adjust global state this way, but should fix the problem in the majority of cases. Stéfan