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Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:22:42 +0100
From: Iain Paton <selsinork AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem default grid style ?
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On 01/04/13 23:16, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Iain Paton <selsinork AT gmail DOT com> 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

Actually I use the dark background, but yes I think it's the same problem the dot grid is much brighter.

Everyone has their own personal preferences, whether that's grid, mesh, light or dark background, or whatever. As long as the user has a choice and an easy-ish way to configure his own personal preferences I have no problem with whatever the apps defaults are.
People are different, I might have worse eyesight, colour vision problems etc. what's considered 'bad form' by a developer might be a requirement for me as better hardware can't change my eyeballs.

Just my 2c, but not everyone is a coder and can create a patch or find and revert the one that made their life difficult. Being inflexible about this stuff, rejecting patches, telling normal users to go buy better hardware etc. seems likely to just chase people away to other EDA suites.

Thanks for the tip on setting up local colours, I'd never realised I could do that. You also led me to finding the directory with system-gschemrc, which appears to have all sorts of interesting defaults that either aren't in the UI or aren't obvious. Looks like I'll have some experimenting to do as there were a couple of other things to ask that might be answered by settings in there.


Thanks!
Iain