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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Brian Sidebotham wrote:
>
> > > 3** How many mouse clicks to turn off a layer.
> > Single click, this time a via a vertical checkbox group.
>
> Hmm, or two if it's just one vertical group. Something like this:
>
> - left-click on unselected but visible layer selects it

This one below is not intuitive:
> - left-click on invisible layer makes it visible and selects it

> - left-click on selected layer toggles visiblity (*)
> - right-click opens a dialog to set layer properties such as
> color, name, short name
>
> (*) If it's desirable that the selected layer be always visible,
> then selection could move to the least recently selected
> visible layer or such when the layer is made invisible.

This above is a valid consideration, what to do when someone tries to 
select an invisible layer...

Lets go back and look at Gabriele's mock up:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/attachments/folder/55037520/item/1371988748/view

What about that as a UI component? It is getting there. I don't see a 
color association however.