That was tried, but there were complaints that you then lose the differential colouring between different items. (And it makes selections look just like highlighting — and there’s enough confusion there already.)
Cheers, Jeff. > On 5 Sep 2019, at 14:05, Jonatan Liljedahl <li...@kymatica.com> wrote: > > Personally, I'd much more prefer it like this (see attached screenshot) :) > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:07 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I would prefer that we pick a more obvious color out of the box. Under >> certain zoom conditions it's difficult to tell if anything is even >> selected on gtk3. Users could make it more subtle if they find it too >> obnoxious. I think that would be better than a bug report about >> selection highlighting not working. >> >> Wayne >> >> On 9/4/19 7:24 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: >>> Oh, that's right. We had been taking the color from system preferences >>> but this did not show up correctly on schematic sheets that were not the >>> system window color. Allowing for customization fixes this but the >>> coloring is very light. It apparently looks correct on Mac but is very >>> washed out under GTK3. I've added a conditional for the defaults that >>> sets GTK/MSW values to the ones that seem appropriate on GTK3. We may >>> want an additional default value for MSW if it similarly appears off. >>> >>> -S >>> >>> On 2019-09-04 18:12, Jeff Young wrote: >>>> The colour is in Preferences now; see if it’s just too washed out on >>>> your monitor. >>>> >>>>> On 4 Sep 2019, at 22:35, Seth Hillbrand <s...@hillbrand.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm working on one (slowly) but it hasn't been pushed. GTK3 in the >>>>> master branch looks normal for me. >>>>> >>>>> Does it look the same in OpenGL and Cairo? >>>>> >>>>> _Seth >>>>> >>>>> On 2019-09-04 15:36, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>>>>> Was there a change recently to the selection highlighting in Eeschema? >>>>>> I can barely see any difference between the selected and unselected >>>>>> objects. If there has not been changes then something needs to be done >>>>>> about the highlighting on gtk3 builds on linux. I thought I would >>>>>> check >>>>>> before I filed a bug report. >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Wayne >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > /Jonatan > http://kymatica.com > <Screenshot 2019-09-05 at 15.03.48.png> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
