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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 14.01.2016 19:58, 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?

Hi,

If nobody opposes, I'll add dot-style grid to the GAL canvas and a
config option to select between dot- and line-style grid.

The colors are indeed too bright for the line-style grid (and
simultaneously, too dark for a dot-style one). My proposal to fix that
and avoid having separate grid settings for legacy & GAL canvases is to
have smaller alpha value for the selected color when drawing line grid.
Any suggestions here?

Best,
Tom


> 
> 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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