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inbotheme vs silx
A side-by-side editorial comparison of inbotheme and silx — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:data-visualization
inbotheme vs silx: at a glance
What is inbotheme?
An institutional ggplot2 theme in slow maintenance, tracking upstream deprecations.
INBOtheme supplies ggplot2 themes and colour palettes matching the house style of INBO and the Flemish government. The current release is compatibility work: silencing ggplot2 deprecation warnings, quieting an interactive palette message, and refreshing the shared checklist tooling INBO uses across its packages. The substantive palette work happened two years earlier.
What is silx?
silx settles into maintenance a release after its PySide6 migration
silx is in the quiet phase after a generational release. 3.1.1 is a single fix to FitWidget loading a fit function from file. The release before it, 3.1.0, was the first real feature work since the migration - asinh axis scaling, twilight colormaps, and dark-theme icons - and 3.0.1 was similarly small. The 3.0.0 cut that reset the Qt binding and Python floor still defines what the line is doing.
inbotheme vs silx: editorial side-by-side
inbotheme
0.0ANALYTICS
An institutional ggplot2 theme in slow maintenance, tracking upstream deprecations.
◆ Current state
INBOtheme supplies ggplot2 themes and colour palettes matching the house style of INBO and the Flemish government. The current release is compatibility work: silencing ggplot2 deprecation warnings, quieting an interactive palette message, and refreshing the shared checklist tooling INBO uses across its packages. The substantive palette work happened two years earlier.
◆ Where it's heading
Development is reactive rather than directional — the package changes when ggplot2 changes or when institutional branding does. The 0.6.0 release reworked palettes and split the documentation; since then the only movement has been keeping that surface valid against upstream deprecations. Note that the feed is not strictly chronological, with 0.5.7 published after 0.5.8.
◆ Prediction
The next release is most likely another ggplot2 compatibility pass; a branding refresh would be the only plausible trigger for anything larger, and nothing in these entries signals one.
silx
5.0ANALYTICS
silx settles into maintenance a release after its PySide6 migration
◆ Current state
silx is in the quiet phase after a generational release. 3.1.1 is a single fix to FitWidget loading a fit function from file. The release before it, 3.1.0, was the first real feature work since the migration - asinh axis scaling, twilight colormaps, and dark-theme icons - and 3.0.1 was similarly small. The 3.0.0 cut that reset the Qt binding and Python floor still defines what the line is doing.
◆ Where it's heading
The cadence has slowed markedly since April, and the content has shifted from structural change to plotting and colormap refinement. That is the expected shape after a binding migration: downstream beamline code needs a stable target, so the project trades feature velocity for a quiet surface. The gap between 3.0.1 in May and 3.1.0 in August is the clearest signal of the deliberate slowdown.
◆ Prediction
Expect further point releases servicing the plotting and fitting widgets rather than another structural change, with feature work continuing to arrive in the 3.1.x minors rather than patches.
Alternatives to inbotheme and silx
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either inbotheme or silx.
Omni
Omni ships weekly, and almost every week the headline item is an AI feature.
Plotly
Plotly is turning its cloud into a metered compute platform with an enterprise on-ramp.
aniread
aniread stops asking you to know which tracker wrote the file
Rho
Rho's release machinery finally produced a stable build — and it shipped no new product.
Usermaven
Usermaven closed the loop: data comes in from anywhere, and now it goes back out.
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Recent activity from inbotheme and silx
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 5h agosilxFitWidget fix for loading a fit function from file
- 9d agosilx3.1.0: asinh axis scaling, twilight colormaps, dark-theme icons
- 3mo agosilx3.0.1: silx view fails to disable HDF5 file locking
- 3mo agosilx3.0.0: PySide6 becomes the default Qt binding, Python 3.10 required ⚡
- 3mo agosilx3.0.0rc1: release candidate for the PySide6 migration
- 1y agosilx2.2.2: plot axes limits, OpenGL axes and libhdf5 1.14 fixes
- 1y agoinbothemeClears ggplot2 deprecation warnings and updates tooling
- 3y agoinbothemePalette overhaul with ordinal and gradient scales
- 4y agoinbothemeRemoves bundled fonts over showtext rendering problems
- 5y agoinbothemeAdds NARA theme; renames objects to snake_case
- 5y agoinbothemetraffic_palette() becomes the default ordinal palette
- 7y agoinbothemeVersion 0.5.5.3
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between inbotheme and silx?
Both compete on the same themes — data-visualization — within Analytics. silx is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is inbotheme better than silx?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. silx is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to inbotheme?
Top inbotheme alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "inbotheme alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/inbotheme for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to silx?
Top silx alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "silx alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/silx for the full list with editorial commentary on each.