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

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Michalske
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

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

2009-03-03 Thread John Griessen
Peter Tyser wrote: 4 I imagine some users might not want to inherit the colors of the PCBs they open. The way I think of it, having inheritable colors in a global place and user defined colors in a ~/.pcb file plus a load/save function is a way to satisfy the most picky, and have a reasonable

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

2009-03-03 Thread David SMITH
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. I agree that it

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

2009-03-03 Thread DJ Delorie
In my case, I want different color schemes for 2 and 4 layer boards, for example. If I set up layer groups for filled polygons, I'd want yet another scheme (the m4a-4m board is two layer but eight drawing layers, I used shades of base colors for each type of signal on each layer).

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

2009-03-03 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 04:54:38PM +, 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

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

2009-03-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:54:38 +, 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

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

2009-03-02 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi DJ, On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 01:28 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Personally, I think the direction we should be going in is *to* saving layer color information in .pcb files. Not sure how much of an argument I'd have for the non-layer colors though. me thinks user expectations and consistency

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

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Tyser
On 3/3/09, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Personally, I think the direction we should be going in is *to* saving layer color information in .pcb files. Not sure how much of an argument I'd have for the non-layer colors though. That thought crossed my mind too but I reasoned: 1. Whether