Many options would be better than the current selection color, which as you mentioned is not noticeable using the default color palette.
Your proposal above sounds good to me. A single color for multiple elements, if it catches the eye, would be better than not being able to find the highlighted element. Especially during cross-probing from Pcbnew where the location of the schematic elements may not be known and dense schematic can easily hide the highlight. Candy-striping may show a selection/highlight well, but with such thin wires in Eeschema it may not be useful. When it does work, it's often better than a single selection/highlight color for colorblind users as well. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:04 PM Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote: > Brightening the selection in Pcbnew works well because the background is > dark and most of the colours are reasonably dark, so there’s a good bit of > room to make the difference between selected and not selected noticeable. > > This is less true in Eeschema, mainly because of the white background. > > I’ve been thinking of using the magenta colour for both net highlighting > and cross-probing, and then using the bright red we use today for > cross-probing for selection. This does mean that selections would no > longer have differentiated colours within (between components, wires, > etc.), but I think might work better than the not-very-noticeable state we > have today. > > Thoughts? > > (I also thought about putting a yellow drop-shadow under selected items so > that they “glowed”, but this is going to put a lot more overhead on OpenGL > when large chunks of the schematic are selected.) > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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