X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:16:11 +0200 From: Kai-Martin Knaak To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem default grid style ? Message-ID: <20130402001611.6a71220b@akka> In-Reply-To: <51503652.7060607@gmail.com> References: <51503652 DOT 7060607 AT gmail DOT com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/hJR6UohAZkr+.2OXi564_xo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:++6OvnaffRddWeh/m3cVggWse0XDUv6hsR/eKyYBQej Zv4dW5Itwjo6yyr8dbpYWs8St9jfXO3jlF0k61TPC2r6bIivud hgSWxYxz+/0Ji3L9VRSN5zq3HHwBHpvQFsFb2VdSrZRGYVTb/i j8Pj3OJRAPYBGaAlrTGwUcC/++Ned/RoCc3M0xB4O+/6K0dL0F aW6qTwAXp/k+z6tKkdcV1wu/bblo66DBU+vy71qJskFa5UGcX0 ZSQNQzUO49sXbYOhSnxeLZmujsWmeSOHiaMOS4hqZKZfJQmW6v uLUy/3rygl4HJpiO14KYhTABJnF5nRK1xV70CCcMSsQzB4ClQ= = Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Sig_/hJR6UohAZkr+.2OXi564_xo Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="MP_/BO7mxEsKrqIGofOq9E+T++n" --MP_/BO7mxEsKrqIGofOq9E+T++n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Iain Paton schrieb am 25. March 2013: > I find the new default of graph-paper like grid hard to see, You probably use the "light background" style for the GUI. I too found the default hardly visible on my monitors. This is not so much because of dots versus lines. It is because dot colour is #7f7f7f, while minor grid lines are #e8e8e8. This is pretty close to the #f0f0f0 grey of the background. I tweaked the colours a bit to make the grid more visible but not so dark that it clashes with nets and components. While at it, I also changed the background grey to white (#ffffff). About every application on my gnome/xfce desktop works with plain white background by default. E.g. inkscape, lyX, gedit, gimp, lodraw, you name it. The result was clearly an improvement. I figured, other users might like it too. So I compiled a patch and filed a bug report. The patch got rejected. I was told to buy better hardware. And plain white background is bad form according to what I was told in the bug discussion. Anyway, you can use your own set of colours in gschem. Unfortunately, there is no GUI way to achieve this. Locate the file=20 gschem-colormap-lightbg and copy it to some convenient place. I'd suggest $HOME/.gEDA/gschem-colors Tweak the colour values to whatever suits you best. To let gschem actually use this tweaked file, you can add this line to=20 $HOME/.gEDA/gschemrc /----------------------- (load (build-path (getenv "HOME") ".gEDA" "gschem-colors")) \------------------------ Next time you start gschem, it will come up with the localized colours. Unfortunately, there is no similar way to add "gschem-colors" to the menu of gschem. You'd have to tweak the source in various files and recompile. Of course, can replace the file gschem-colormap-lightbg. But it will be overwritten on the next update of the geda suite.=20 I attached the version of gschem-colors we use at IQO-Hannover. 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