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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Like I said, the icons (visual style and color) will be changed before
release

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:05 AM Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Perhaps eye / no eye?
>
> The thing is, the difference between on and off is eyelashes + contrast.
> Depending on the display that can be pretty hard to differentiate.
>
>
> On 2020-10-14 11:00 a.m., Jon Evans wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I find the "open eye", "closed eye" a bit hard to differentiate.
> I'd prefer something like an X or check mark.
>
> The icons are being tweaked before release.  The problem with the
> checkboxes is that they look different on every platform and it's not as
> clear that they are visibility controls -- normally checkboxes are for
> enabling/disabling things.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:57 AM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:52 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> "Footprint Text" off turns off all footprint text, including references
>>> and values.  This isn't new behavior but I worry that the simplified
>>> objects panel has made it more confusing than it was in 5.1
>>>
>>>
>> This only turns it off when viewing the board, correct? It will still be
>> included in the plot output if the actual text is marked "Show" in the
>> dialog.
>>
>
> Yes
>
>
>>
>>> We could have the Footprint Text control act as a visual override for
>>> the Values and References controls to make this more clear...
>>>
>>
>> Can we link these controls so that changing the "Footprint Text"
>> visibility changes the "references" and "values" visibility, but those two
>> can still be changed separately? (e.g. to allow showing only the references
>> text from footprints).
>>
>
> That's what I was proposing
>
> -Jon
>
>