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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jon,

Sounds good to me too.  A few edge-cases you might want to watch out for:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1733894 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1733894>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1744521 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1744521>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1744730 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1744730>

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 18 Feb 2018, at 22:36, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey Jon,
> 
> I'm good with all of this.  I would like to get this cleaned up before the stable release if possible since there are so many complaints and bug reports about it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 02/18/2018 03:00 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Right now the behavior of the "Layer" and "Render" tabs of the layers widget are confusing to users, resulting in complaints on the forum and some bug reports:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748181
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1743890
>> I could take a crack at fixing this (before or after 5.0 depending on what the complexity ends up being) but before I write any code I wanted to propose how I think it should work.
>> I think the visibility of any object should be the AND of layer visibility and render visibility.
>> To get there:
>> 1) In the Render tab, get rid of the distinction between front/back. For example "Pads Back" and "Pads Front" becomes just "Pads"
>> 2) Change the visibility code so that an object is visible if (a) the associated Render setting is turned on for the type of object, and (b) at least one of the layers the object is on is enabled in the Layers tab.
>> 3) (optionally) Rename "Render" to something more friendly like "Items" or "Item Types" to make it more clear to the user that this is where they can turn off the display of various types of items as opposed to various layerse
>> If this plan is OK, I will start working out the details of how to get there.  Right now the Render tab is directly controlling the visibility of certain "GAL Layers" but unfortunately the set of objects that appears on one GAL layer is not always equal to the set of objects that the user would expect to turn on and off, as seen by the bug reports.  So, there will have to be some additional logic created to manage these settings beyond just turning on and off layers in the GAL.
>> -Jon
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