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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

I have entered the user-configurable colors as a wishlist item into
Launchpad so we don't lose it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1852107
.

I'd be fine backporting the bug fix, I will leave it to Wayne to decide if
the colors should be included or not.

-Ian

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 7:23 PM Kymatica <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks!
> I agree a user setting would be best, preferrably with some nice included
> palettes.
>
> I left the old commented palettes since there was already several other
> palettes there.
>
> Perhaps it would make sense to just backport the bug fix, but keep the old
> 8-color palette?
>
> /Jonatan
>
> 11 nov. 2019 kl. 18:35 skrev Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>:
>
> 
> Jonatan,
>
> Thank you for putting this together. Overall I think it looks good, but
> the only issue I saw was that the SIM_PLOT_FRAME::generateColor() function
> seems to be becoming a graveyard for old colors with 4 old attempts at
> creating color profiles now commented out. I have merged it into master as
> is (we can leave those old attempts in there for now to show what has been
> done before), but I think it would be good to have a larger discussion
> about making these plot colors user-configurable.
>
> A good path forward would be to create a new settings page that allows the
> user to add/define/modify the simulation colors that are used for drawing
> the lines. That way they can also add more colors to the 16 if they prefer.
> Whether this ends up being stored with the simulation settings or in the
> main Eeschema color settings that will be introduced in v6 is something we
> should discuss.
>
> I am on the fence about whether this should be backported to the 5.1
> branch when 5.1.6 development opens. On the one hand this fixes a bug, but
> the change in color scheme in a minor release could annoy some users (since
> there is no way of changing the colors).
>
> -Ian
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 3:19 PM Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> And here's a screenshot showing how (some of the) new colors looks like.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 5:13 PM Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > NEW: The simulator plot now avoids colors already in use, if possible.
>> > The palette is replaced with a larger one with less saturated colors.
>> >
>> > Fixes: lp:1851372
>> > * https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1851372
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > /Jonatan
>> > http://kymatica.com
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> /Jonatan
>> http://kymatica.com
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