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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0800
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:24:26 +1100
Stephen Ecob <stephen DOT ecob AT sioi DOT com DOT au> wrote:

> > This looks much better in Peter Clifton's pcb+gl branch than in
> > mainline pcb git HEAD at present. See attached image.  It
> > handles overlapping traces MUCH more nicely.
> 
> I agree it looks nicer, but  the transparency effects in GIT head
> using GTK+GL do have the benefit of letting the user know that
> these are not simple pads.  They /almost/ don't need to know, but
> it would he helpful if they experience the unexpected behaviour
> of "snap to pad center" when working with overlapping but
> misaligned pads.

Agreed that the snap-to-pad is really lousy when you have
non-simple pads.  Still, it hardly helps the user to see all the
component pads... the problem of snapping remains.

Regards,
Colin