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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/5/2014 1:37 PM, Mark Roszko wrote:
>> Please respect the users system font choices for controls bold or
>> otherwise.  I know there are lots of UI folks who would disagree with me
>> but when I set my system fonts, I do it for because that's the way I
>> like them and I don't want them changed.  Otherwise I would make them
>> bold, italicized, etc. myself.
> 
> Is this about bolding the section items or selected items(original behavior)?
> 

Section items.  Making a selection bold for emphasis is fine unless
there is some other emphasis mechanism in play such as highlighting.  I
realize there are places in KiCad that still manipulate the user's
preferred font settings.  Most of this is legacy code.  If you happen to
find them while you are UI polishing, please fix them.  I'm not a big
fan for the reason that I've already stated.  Keep in mind there are
places where bold text is used such as inside of HTML controls which is
fine.  I know one of the worst offenders is the layer control in Pcbnew.
 This was done to get more information displayed on the screen but I'm
still not 100% convinced it was the correct solution.  When in doubt,
always respect the user's font choice.