Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds - summary

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 09:55:17AM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> Also, try italicised text. That might make them appear distinct.
>

This might work. So might coloring the text. But this has the
same problem as putting text in parentheses: at first glance,
this visual indicator might mean -anything-.
 
> Bear in mind that the current layer chooser doesn't make any distinction
> here, so it shouldn't trip people up _that_ much if we don't
> differentiate them.
>

The current UI does a very good job on this point: there are no
radio buttons to select the bottom layers, so it is very clear
that they cannot be selected. At the same time, the visibility
toggle buttons are identical for each layer, so it is clear that
visibility can be toggled for everything.

What we need to do with the treeview/swatch widget, is to indicate
that the swatch still works for toggling visibility, but you can't
actually select the layer for drawing.


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



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