Inline display of plots in Console

[jmcphers]

We could make it possible to see plot output in the Console, in addition to (or perhaps instead of) the Plots pane.

The Console already has some support for this, in fact; if you use a notebook console (which causes plots to be emitted as flat images rather than resizable/dynamic ones), you'll see thumbnails come up:

Discussed in #11098

^{Originally posted by adamltaylor December 12, 2025}
FWIW, I would really like it if there was an option to have matplotlib plots shown inline in the Console, like the results of other computations. This is how things are done in e.g. jupyter qtconsole.

Example: