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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/22/2018 9:10 AM, Andrzej Wolski wrote:
> If some work on Render panel is still being done, I would have some
> suggestions:
> 1. "Text Front" and "Text Back" should be renamed to something like
> "Footpr. Text Front" It is misleading now.

I'm fine with this but please do not abbreviate the word footprint.

> 2. "Bl/Bburied Via" and "Micro Via" could be hidden if they are disabled
> in design settings.

This makes sense as long as you do not couple the layer manager UI code
to the board object code.

> 3. It would be nice to have right click menu with something like:
>     "Show all footprint related"
>     "Hide all footprint related"
>     "Show all free primitives"
>     "Hide all free primitives"
>     "Show all other???"
>     "Hide all other???"
>     "Show all"
>     "Hide all"

Don't we already have something like this in the layer manager (see
attached image)?

> 4. State of some checkboxes is not saved.

I think only the layer visibility states are saved in the board file.  I
would rather not add any more non-board related information the board
file format than is already there.  This state information could be
saved in the project file or the application config file.  My preference
is the project file but it's not a strong preference.

> 
> If you can't, I could do some of these changes (if it's not too late for
> them).
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrzej
> 
> 
> W dniu 2018-02-22 o 05:39, Jon Evans pisze:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This patch rearranges the Render panel to be in a more logical order,
>> and adds some whitespace.
>> I divided it into three groupings:
>> 1) footprint related
>> 2) other board objects
>> 3) non-board stuff like grid, ratlines, etc.
>>
>> I also bumped out the default size so that scrollbars aren't needed by
>> default on my Linux system.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>>
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