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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2018-01-04 <20%2018%2001%2004> 9:55 GMT+01:00 André S. <
list.dev.kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I discovered some not consistent behaviour in the current stable release:
> On the Legacy canvas you can display Value of the footprint by enabling
> Value option under Elements in the Visibility menu.
> This is not true for OpenGL and Cairo canvas.
> In the Nightly from 2018-01-02 Legacy shows the same behaviour as OpenGL
> and Cairo. There Value is only visible when F.Fab is visible.
> This means 5.0 will show consistent behaviour over all canvases. Fine.
> The same is true with References and F.SilkS layer.
>
> What is missing with this solution is the possibility to be able to only
> display Value/Reference of a footprint as the current stable release Legacy
> canvas allows. (I really like this feature because it removes a lot of
> visual noise on the PCB during layout design).
>
>
I don't understand you. There is still the toggle for references and values
in the render (elemente) tab. I don't understand why you exemplify it with
4.0.7 when you say there is no regression. Please illustrate what you would
like to have and attach an example kicad_pcb file, it is easier to comment
on that.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741015


> I do think the behaviour of Legacy was always there, therefore my
> confusion with the Values and References not visible when switching
> canvases.
> Is there any chance that in future there will be an option (again) to
> toggle Value and Reference visibility independently from F.Fab and F.Silks?
>
> Best Regards,
>   André
>
> PS: xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1172/ ;)
>
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