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Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 0/4][PCB] Color setting updates
the 50,000 dollar a seat software seems to thing like this as well.
my 2 cents
have color schemes,
base the selection of the color scheme based upon the groups in the
layout.
groups are defined like
[pcb_colors] = {default|override} component: color1, color2, color3,
color4; solder: color 5, color6, color7, color8; inner1: color9,
color10; .......
default means that the user want these to be default values
override states that use my global or project directory colors
loading colors from the pcb file ignores default/override
having color definitions be in a file under the local project
directory allows for version control to not conflict across
developers. as imbedding them in the pcb files can allow for that.
replace colorX with a coding that we like, hex RGBA ?
e.g.
red at half transparency
#FF000080
orange at solid
##FFA500FF
I think the gtk color picker should have these values, inkscape shows
them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors for all the pretty
options :-P
hardkrash
On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> 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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