<h3 dir="auto">Proposed changes</h3>
<p dir="auto">Inspired by the <a href="https://matplotlib.org/gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/stem_plot.html#sphx-glr-gallery-lines-bars-and-markers-stem-plot-py" rel="nofollow">example stem plot</a>.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>1. Z order</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Currently the stems are on top of the markers. This is in agreement with the MATLAB behavior <a href="http://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/stem.html#btrw_xi-94" rel="nofollow">http://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/stem.html#btrw_xi-94</a></p>
<p dir="auto">However, it looks a bit untidy. I propose to place the markers on top.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>2. Example coloring</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">The example cycles through the stem colors. IMO this is an untypical use case. The example (in particular if we just have one) should show a typical diagram. Therefore, we should change it to just one stem color.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Bug report</h3>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Bug summary</strong><br>
When opening a matplotlib figure window, the (Windows) task bar icon is not correct. It instead shows a white / blank icon. Possible duplicate of <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="469869175" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/14850" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/14850/hovercard" href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/14850">#14850</a>?</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Description</strong><br>
This issue started after updating the Spyder IDE to 4.1.2 (which required removing and reinstalling matplotlib), but the folks <a href="https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/12301" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/12301/hovercard">over at the spyder repository</a> indicated this was not something they control.</p>
<p dir="auto">I tried:</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>updating matplotlib from 3.1.3 to the most recent version (3.2.1) using <code class="notranslate">conda update -c conda-forge matplotlib</code></li>
<li>a clean reinstall of anaconda (for unrelated reasons), but the same issue was still present</li>
<li>resetting the windows icon cache by removing <code class="notranslate">C:\Users\&lt;user&gt;\AppData\Local\IconCache.db</code> and restarting windows explorer</li>
<li>switching backend for rendering the figure through the Spyder settings from <code class="notranslate">Automatic</code> to <code class="notranslate">Qt5</code>, <code class="notranslate">Qt4</code>, or <code class="notranslate">Tkinter</code>. In all cases the outcome was the same.</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Outcome</strong><br>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54527765/79308098-4605dd00-7ef8-11ea-98de-ac4e2483cfe1.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54527765/79308098-4605dd00-7ef8-11ea-98de-ac4e2483cfe1.png" alt="79195908-5f8f2200-7e2f-11ea-8ab6-361778ebd1f9" style="max-width: 100%;"></a><br>
Note the icon on the windows task bar, the white page-like icon is that of the figure window.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Expected outcome</strong><br>
Previously I would see the spyder IDE icon (which, apparently, is already strange behaviour) also for the figure windows, on another machine I see the matplotlib logo.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Matplotlib version</strong></p>

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<li>Operating system: Windows 10</li>
<li>Matplotlib version: 3.1.3, but upgrading to 3.2.1 did not resolve the problem</li>
<li>Matplotlib backend (<code class="notranslate">print(matplotlib.get_backend())</code>): Qt5Agg (but tried also Qt4 and TKinter)</li>
<li>Python version: 3.7.6</li>
</ul>