Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

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> 
> > OTOH, I don't like the current layer arrangement in PCB, which
> > provides separate tabs for metal_top and GND_top (i.e. plane), and so
> > on.  There should be one tab per layer & you should handle plane
> > vs. routing layer issues using positive and negative layers.
> 
> You're talking about the layer groups.  I think those exist just so
> you can have different nets be different colors, even when on the same
> physical layer.

Perhaps.  Even so, I don't think that different nets should be
different colors on the same layer.  The focus of a layout program is
the board's layers, not the nets.  Therefore, everything on the same
layer should be the same color.

Stuart