gEDA-bug: [Bug 799926] Re: gschem grid barely visible with lightbg theme

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

The long silence may relate to the fact that this bug report is quite
trivial compared to some of the others open on the suite. I think I
speak for most of the developers when I say we are pretty busy people,
and when we do get time to spend on gEDA, the priority tends to be
directed at more critical bugs or missing features.

Continually painting the bike shed is wasting time. I like it one way,
you like it another. Fine. There is clearly no "right" answer here, as
with so many other issues in the suite. Whilst there are crash reports,
missing features and other problems - don't be surprised if a bug like
this sits unattended. Whilst the clichà "patches welcome" is often
bandied about, just because a patch is written does not mean that we
will (or should) commit it, either.

Regarding bug handling I would personally tend to avoid (ignore) a
report like this than to immediately respond confrontationally, "I don't
want this". Perhaps I should have done when you bumped the issue in your
second comment, but I was hoping there would be some other opinions
voiced, or the issue would go away ;) Given I obviously cared enough
about it to revert the patch, I probably should have replied in the
first place.

Krzysztof has been doing sterling work addressing gEDA bug reports, so I
apologise to him for overruling the commit and causing trouble here.
This is a two-way street though.. it looks like one of the changes I
made elsewhere (regarding the "n" shortcut and magnetic net mode) was
quite unpopular, is going to be reverted as people don't like the
change.

Please be gracious here and accept that you may need to maintain this
change as local config. I have a handful of similar changes myself -
kept because the accepted practice for gEDA is not to push our own
personal preferences down to everyone else without good reason once code
is released with a particular default people may have got used to.

When we write new code, we get a chance to set defaults we like (and
think others will too). Even if we developers change our minds later, we
don't tend to get the luxury of pushing the changes, as my own mouse-
scroll-wheel bindings overrides will attest ;) (I changed my mind about
what the bindings ought to be after I originally wrote the code).


** Changed in: geda
       Status: Fix Committed => Opinion

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Title:
  gschem grid barely visible with lightbg theme

Status in GPL Electronic Design Automation tools:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  The grid lines of gschem are pretty low key with the current gschem-
  colormap-lightbg. This depends of course on the contrast and
  brightness settings of the monitor. However, grid lines are hardly
  visible on four of five TFT monitors I have access to, when settings
  are in default position. There is almost no difference visible between
  minor and major grid lines.

  Find attached a patch to the lightbg color profile for slightly more
  pronounced grid lines.

  ---<)kaimartin(>---

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