Hi Andrew and all, > -----Original Message----- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Poelstra > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:52 AM > To: k...@familieknaak.de; gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:08:34AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > > This advantage wears off as the user uses the feature more often. > > Using layers is very basic to PCB. Typical use switches layers very > > often in a session. Because of this, long term aspects become more > > important, like efficient use of screen real estate and good > > visibility of important aspects. > > > > Eye icons would demand an additional share of space that cannot be > > used for the canvas. Greyed out buttons buttons are a very > intuitive > > and obvious way to signal invisibility. > > > > Kai (and others), what do you think of this mockup?: > > http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/mockup.png > > -- > Andrew Poelstra > Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net > Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/ > >
Looks nice ;-) I assume that "ground" is the active layer ? BTW, we could truncate layernames in buttons: "solder mask"--> "mask" "rat lines" --> "rats" "pins/pads" --> "leads" To save some screen real estate. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
