Andrew Poelstra wrote: > Why do you want this feedback? The highlighting is meant to give a > tactile feel to the layer selector, nothing more.
There is more to it. Obvious feedback can make a fast switch of layers more efficient. > Pcb doesn't care > what layer the mouse is over. It does not care, what scrollbar, or what toolbox button the mouse is over, either. Yet both of them highlight. > The user shouldn't care what layer the mouse is over. For sure I do. I want to know exactly, what layer is going to be activated before I give the mouse a click. It is pleasant to see this on first glance without having to actually focus the eyes to the widget. (Yes, the accel keys are even better at it. But this is not the point.) > The old highlight mode was awful. I don't want to have it back!! ;-) All I am asking for, is that the highlighting of the new box is obvious. > (The default gtk button prelighting is even less visible than > my layer swatch business -- look at the "Route Styles" button.) This depends on the GTK style. Some styles feature very obvious highlighting on mouse-over of radio buttons, some make it less obvious and some don't hint at all. I for one use a slightly modified version of the theme wasp, which is one of the default themes distributed with gnome in debian. See the attached screenshots how this theme renders mouse-over of route styles. The other clickable items in the PCB GUI behave in a similar way -- Tool box, scroll bar, and even menu items. For consistency, the layer box should behave the same. While at it, you might also consider to change the background color of the layer box to be consistent with the rest of the GUI widgets. Currently, it sticks out. BTW, wasp is not the only theme to do such obvious highlighting. The popular nuvola and gorilla themes do the same. > I have never seen a select box with prelighting > like you suggest, and evidently neither have the gtk folks. They do so with radio buttons. And the PCB layer box certainly has a radio button aspect to it. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de -----> not happy with moderation of geda-user mailinglist _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
