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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose the grid color _is_ customizable, in all my time using KiCad I 
never noticed that! Everything else I said about unification stands, 
though. ;)

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:58:41PM -0500, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Yeah, I'll be difficult too - it looks Bad now, very distracting. The 
> legacy grid color was meant for use with a dot grid, not a line grid, so 
> it has to be brighter. When you use it for a line grid, it's really 
> garish.
> 
> I think that the grid color ought to be customizable like the layer 
> colors - and unless we want to make separate legacy and GAL grid color 
> options (which I really do not recommend), perhaps we should unify the 
> grid types?
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:57:49PM +0100, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I know, I am difficult… :)
> > 
> > In GAL canvas grid was almost invisible up to now.
> > 
> > With one of the last commit it obviously respects grid color which it didn’t before… yes, it is very visible now:
> > 
> > 
> > Is it intended to stay this way?
> > OK, I can see the grid very well now, but I hardly can see the ratsnest lines now… :)
> > 
> > I have seen in the code that a “dot” grid (using small rectangles) seems to be implemented… any special reasons why this is not used?
> > Should this maybe get a configuration option?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Bernhard
> 
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