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Re: [PATCH] Allow selecting footprints that are only silkscreen using silk layers

 

The intent was to only allow selection of "components" which only exist on
the silkscreen layer.  It makes sense to me to be able to move these around
when high-contrasting on the silkscreen layer, since they are basically
just "free silkscreen" objects.

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Yeah, this goes against the whole reason I use high contrast mode.
>
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 08:11:00PM +0000, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > Is this behavior desirable?  I know some users who use the high contrast
> > mode to prevent the disambiguation menus when editing high density
> > boards.  Wouldn't this patch make that issue worse since now you are
> > including the silkscreen layers which will increase the probability of a
> > disambiguation?  I would like to get more feedback on this before I
> > merge this patch.
> >
> > On 01/04/2018 05:40 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > > See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1741350
> > >
> > >
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