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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/2016 1:58 PM, 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?

If by unify you mean use lines in the legacy canvas in place of dots,
I'm not at all thrilled about that.  The line grid is too distracting
for normal use even when you dial back the color (since Tom's patch).  I
would prefer we figure out away to use dots (or some facsimile there of)
on the gal canvas.  I would be willing to guess that I'm not alone in
that preference.

> 
> 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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