Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Poelstra wrote:

> I think such a thing would look like:
> http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/selector.png
> 
> What do people think of this? 

Invisibility by greyed out buttons is much more easily grasped
on a glance than presence or abcense of an eye icon. I'd prefer to 
not have eye icons and signal visibility by greying out.

Fat print of the current layer is a nice way to signal the current
layer. Maybe the background of the layer name can be highlighted in 
some way, too. The current layer is one of the most important bits
of information the layer block delivers.

Buttons should be all the same size, rather than just the 
size of the respective layer name.
 
If you go for such a radical change, please make it so, that 
the larger button selects the current layer. Select of a layer
is much more common than change of visibility.

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