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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:04:16 -0700
From: Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB linux git head questions
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On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:17:13 -0500
John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:

> On 10/02/2011 11:13 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> > The hard part would be making --layer-color-N and
> > --layer-selected-color-N command-line options work sensibly, as
> > well as the .preferences settings.
> 
> Oh, lets not do a messy fix.
> 
> My work around for project definable colors is to use more layers
> and keep them the same color, and some projects use all, some a
> subset.

I think a good solution would be for the user preferences file to
map layer names to colors, rather than layer numbers.  This way,
each layout would receive the right colors for its layers, no
matter whether there were extra layers inserted or some removed.

For instance, the user colors file might have lines like:
connected-color = #ff79e2       ; as always
off-limit-color = #cccccc       ; as always
grid-color = #ff0000            ; as always
layer-color-top = #ff6868       ; layer color assigned by name!
layer-color-bottom = #5f88ff    ; ... bottom layer
layer-color-layer2 = #5f88ff    ; ... first internal layer
layer-color-layer3 = #5f88ff    ; ... second internal layer
layer-color-outline = #5f88ff   ; ... special outline layer
layer-color-silk = #ffffff      ; ... silk layer

Then the names of layers in the .pcb layout file determine which
colors are used.

Regards,
Colin