ipython/ipython — pull request #2074 by tkf (2012-07-01 14:33:47+00:00)
Title: Make BG color of inline plot configurable

pylabtools.print_figure respects the facecolor/edgecolor setting in
the figure instance, instead of overriding by hard-coded color.
Now user can set color by matplotlibt API (e.g., fig.set_facecolor)
or IPython configuration.

When this patch applied, you can tweak matplotlib.rcParams to make the inline plot in dark BG Qt console looks better (just for fun):