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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wait, I may have misunderstood what this patch does. Disregard - I'd
test it myself but my source tree is a bit of a mess at the moment...

On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 08:17:11PM +0000, Jon Evans wrote:
> 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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