kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just find it unclear at the moment and thought I'd mention it.

As Jon says things will change before release so I'll wait till then.


On 2020-10-14 11:12 a.m., Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> I sympathise with the issue. How about the 'hidden' state is like the 
> current hidden icon but about 1/2 the current height, so almost a 
> horizontal line?
>
> Ruth
>
>
> On 14/10/2020 16:05, Brian Piccioni 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 <mailto:Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:52 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >     <mailto: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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mailing list:https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > Post to     :kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Unsubscribe :https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > More help   :https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp