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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Remember, I'm about to rearrange all the options anyway, so it's probably not
much of a concern where it goes for now. Feel free to begin the preferences
organization bikeshedding on the thread I already started for that, though :D

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 03:58:21PM +0200, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On 05/02/2016 07:08 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
> > just fyi for anyone as dumb/blind as me the option for switching
> > between dots and lines for the grid is in Dimensions->Grid in pcbnew.
> 
> Purposedly I have not left any clues to see if I had picked the right
> place for the setting. Apparently it is not as intuitive as I initially
> thought, so do you know another place that fits beter?
> 
> > Orson, in regards to this as the button on the left with the dotted
> > grid thingy jsut does the damn as the render checkbox for grid might
> > it not be an idea to change the button on the left to switch between
> > dots/lines or dots/lines/none?
> 
> I am not sure if it is a good idea. I believe there are two camps:
> dot-gridders and line-gridders and they never switch sides, so everyone
> would have to go through an unnecessary clicks to skip an unwanted grid
> mode while toggling grid display.
> 
> It would also introduce another inconsistency with the legacy canvas,
> and I would rather avoid it at the moment.
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 
> > Simon
> > 
> > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:16 AM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> As noone had opposed the changes, I have just merged the bitmap fonts
> >> branch.
> >>
> >> As a small bonus, we have also added an option to switch to dotted grid
> >> in GAL (thanks to Tom for refactoring the grid drawing routine).
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Orson
> >>
> >>
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