Remember, I'm about to rearrange all the options anyway, so it's probably not much of a concern where it goes for now. Feel free to begin the preferences organization bikeshedding on the thread I already started for that, though :D
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 03:58:21PM +0200, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 05/02/2016 07:08 PM, Simon Wells wrote: > > just fyi for anyone as dumb/blind as me the option for switching > > between dots and lines for the grid is in Dimensions->Grid in pcbnew. > > Purposedly I have not left any clues to see if I had picked the right > place for the setting. Apparently it is not as intuitive as I initially > thought, so do you know another place that fits beter? > > > Orson, in regards to this as the button on the left with the dotted > > grid thingy jsut does the damn as the render checkbox for grid might > > it not be an idea to change the button on the left to switch between > > dots/lines or dots/lines/none? > > I am not sure if it is a good idea. I believe there are two camps: > dot-gridders and line-gridders and they never switch sides, so everyone > would have to go through an unnecessary clicks to skip an unwanted grid > mode while toggling grid display. > > It would also introduce another inconsistency with the legacy canvas, > and I would rather avoid it at the moment. > > Regards, > Orson > > > Simon > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:16 AM, Maciej Sumiński <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> As noone had opposed the changes, I have just merged the bitmap fonts > >> branch. > >> > >> As a small bonus, we have also added an option to switch to dotted grid > >> in GAL (thanks to Tom for refactoring the grid drawing routine). > >> > >> Regards, > >> Orson > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
