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[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, I'd much more prefer it like this (see attached screenshot) :)

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:07 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I would prefer that we pick a more obvious color out of the box.  Under
> certain zoom conditions it's difficult to tell if anything is even
> selected on gtk3.  Users could make it more subtle if they find it too
> obnoxious.  I think that would be better than a bug report about
> selection highlighting not working.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 9/4/19 7:24 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > Oh, that's right.  We had been taking the color from system preferences
> > but this did not show up correctly on schematic sheets that were not the
> > system window color.  Allowing for customization fixes this but the
> > coloring is very light.  It apparently looks correct on Mac but is very
> > washed out under GTK3.  I've added a conditional for the defaults that
> > sets GTK/MSW values to the ones that seem appropriate on GTK3.  We may
> > want an additional default value for MSW if it similarly appears off.
> >
> > -S
> >
> > On 2019-09-04 18:12, Jeff Young wrote:
> >> The colour is in Preferences now; see if it’s just too washed out on
> >> your monitor.
> >>
> >>> On 4 Sep 2019, at 22:35, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm working on one (slowly) but it hasn't been pushed. GTK3 in the
> >>> master branch looks normal for me.
> >>>
> >>> Does it look the same in OpenGL and Cairo?
> >>>
> >>> _Seth
> >>>
> >>> On 2019-09-04 15:36, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>> Was there a change recently to the selection highlighting in Eeschema?
> >>>> I can barely see any difference between the selected and unselected
> >>>> objects.  If there has not been changes then something needs to be done
> >>>> about the highlighting on gtk3 builds on linux.  I thought I would
> >>>> check
> >>>> before I filed a bug report.
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Wayne
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/Jonatan
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