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. > > ---<(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 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user