Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 0/4][PCB] Color setting updates

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:54:38 +0000, David SMITH wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:16:25AM -0600, Peter Tyser wrote:
>> 4 I imagine some users might not want to inherit the colors of the PCBs
>> they open.
> 
> I'd agree with this.  Remember that some of us are colourblind, so we
> might choose colour schemes that seem wierd to "normal" people.

On the other hand, sensible colors depend on the layer stack. For example 
I like to use three layers for top and another three for bottom (tracks, 
ground and polygons). With this set-up the default colors don't fit at 
all. There is no problem as long as I edit only my own layouts. However, 
if given to someone else for a review, he needs to install and load my 
color table to get a decent impression on screen. 
Footprints are a in in this aspect too. Converting from buffer to element 
only considers the first two layers. So, my default layer stack won't fit 
and sensible colors are closer to the default color scheme. However, pcb 
insists to load the color scheme of the last session and I have to got to 
file-preferences-colors to load the proper colors. 

How about loading a color table in the local directory by default if it 
exists. Just like we do with gschemrc? This would allow me to set colors 
on a per project base. This would relieve me from changing the color 
table once per session. If I share a project, the receiver does not need 
to install my colors into his pcb config dir.

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