Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew and all, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Poelstra
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:52 AM
> To: kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:08:34AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > 
> > This advantage wears off as the user uses the feature more often.
> > Using layers is very basic to PCB. Typical use switches layers very 
> > often in a session. Because of this, long term aspects become more 
> > important, like efficient use of screen real estate and good 
> > visibility of important aspects.
> > 
> > Eye icons would demand an additional share of space that cannot be 
> > used for the canvas. Greyed out buttons buttons are a very 
> intuitive 
> > and obvious way to signal invisibility.
> >
> 
> Kai (and others), what do you think of this mockup?:
> 
> http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/mockup.png 
> 
> --
> Andrew Poelstra
> Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
> Web:   http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/
> 
> 

Looks nice ;-)

I assume that "ground" is the active layer ? 

BTW, we could truncate layernames in buttons:

"solder mask"--> "mask"
"rat lines" --> "rats"
"pins/pads" --> "leads"

To save some screen real estate.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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