Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 04:12:34AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> 
> > Kai (and others), what do you think of this mockup?:
> > 
> > http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/mockup.png 
> 
> Layer names with white background are much easier to read than white
> on color we have now. If it were me, the colored squares could be a 
> tad larger without increasig the line spacing.
>

Good call. I increased them to 14x14 pixels of color and they are
much easier to see without increasing the line height.
 
> The little color triangles are not necessary. But I like this eye candy.
> 
> There should be two highlight modes. One to show that the respective
> layer is the currently active layer. And another to provide visual 
> feedback for the mouse. These two should not be exclusive, so you can 
> mouse-highlicgt the current layer. How about underline for the active 
> layer and the systems highlight color for mouse feedback? The latter is 
> what I got to expect from gnome applications.
> 

What if we just keep the active layer highlighted all the time,
and use that in place of the radio buttons?

-- 
Andrew Poelstra
Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
Web:   http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/



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