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[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:20 PM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.)

I'm not sure I understand the need for differential coloring inside
the selection highlight?
Highlighting nets are purple/pink, cross-probing is red, selection
could be some other bright color.

Another alternative would be to use the new halo but with clean sharp
edges instead of the fading-out / glow (which IMHO looks a bit
unprofessional).
I attach a crude mockup of what I mean..


> 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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> > --
> > /Jonatan
> > http://kymatica.com
> > <Screenshot 2019-09-05 at 15.03.48.png>
>


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/Jonatan
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