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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

That was tried, but there were complaints that you then lose the differential colouring between different items.  (And it makes selections look just like highlighting — and there’s enough confusion there already.)

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 5 Sep 2019, at 14:05, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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