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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Launchpad bug description has a pretty good example -- if you place the
KiCad logo (from the library) on a silk layer, you can't interact with it
when using high-contrast on the silk layer without this patch.
But if you place it next to another component that has non-silk data (i.e.
pads, etc) you can't select or move that component from the silk layer.

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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