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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(The contrast for the current icons is worse on Windows than on other
platforms because the default Windows application color theme uses a darker
panel background)

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:06 AM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>