Controlling legend circle size in bubble plot

Hi. I’ve been making some (offline) bubble plots using the Python API. I am using bubbles of different sizes. Everything works well, but I cannot see how to control the size of the circles that plotly puts into the legend. The size looks to be determined by the numbers in the size (list) argument I give to the markers. I.e., the size list seems to be controlling two things: the sizes of the individual bubbles in the body of the plot, and also the size of the single bubble in the legend. As I increase the values in the size list, the size of the legend bubble increases proportionally.

In this example, https://plot.ly/python/bubble-charts/#categorical-bubble-charts there are different plot bubble sizes, but the legend bubbles are all the same size. OTOH, on this page http://help.plot.ly/make-a-bubble-chart/ the first chart has differently sized bubbles in the legend in the first plot, but identical sized ones in the legends of the latter plots.

I have plotly version 2.0.1

Can someone tell me how to control this?

Thanks!

This is super frustrating - it appears that plotly uses a heuristic to decide whether to scale the legend marker sizes and there is not an option to turn it off.

Here’s the same issue in the R library - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40098827/r-plotly-version-4-5-2-scatterplot-legend-bubble-size-settings