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. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user