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 <br...@documenteddesigns.com> 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.mciner...@ieee.org> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:52 PM Jon Evans <j...@craftyjon.com> 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 > >
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