Bug report

xref https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62602933/matplotlib-navigation-toolbar-resets-legendstyle

The logic to regenerate the legend in the Qt figure option window discards most of the custom state set on the legend.

Bug summary

The logic that regenerate the legend pulls only ncols and if the legend is draggable

but nothing else.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib .pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(range(5), label='a')
ax.plot(range(3)[::-1], label='b')
ax.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(0,1.02,1,0.2), loc="lower left", mode="expand", borderaxespad=0, ncol=3)
plt.show()

open the figure options, tick "(Re)-generate legend" and hit OK or apply

Actual outcome

The legend settings are discarded when the figure is re-generated

Expected outcome

The bbox_to_anchor, loc,... settings to be re-used.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: any
• Matplotlib version: 3.2+
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())): Qt5Agg (any Qt5 backend)
• Python version: Any

installed from source