From 297ccea8b0a0fde4e89509f723502ba6c8b861d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Silvester <steven.silvester@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:02:21 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Do not try and guess the mpl backend

---
 skimage/__init__.py | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/skimage/__init__.py b/skimage/__init__.py
index f7339ba5..303ea34f 100644
--- a/skimage/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/__init__.py
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ import imp as _imp
 import functools as _functools
 import warnings as _warnings
 
-import matplotlib as _mpl
-if 'Qt5Agg' in _mpl.rcsetup.interactive_bk:
-    _mpl.rcParams['backend'] = 'Qt5Agg'
-else:
-    _mpl.rcParams['backend'] = 'Qt4Agg'
-
 pkg_dir = _osp.abspath(_osp.dirname(__file__))
 data_dir = _osp.join(pkg_dir, 'data')