Switching to legacy permanently destroys RGB color scheme
Bug #1670669 reported by
Chris Pavlina
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KiCad |
Fix Released
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Low
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Jon Evans | ||
Bug Description
If you switch to legacy canvas, any RGB color scheme you have set is converted *permanently* to the fixed color set. Switching back to GAL does not restore it, and it will be saved when KiCad quits.
This means that if you accidentally press F9, your only option to avoid losing the color scheme you carefully put together is to lose your work instead, running "pkill kicad" to abort before settings are saved.
I wonder if we could use separate setting names for the RGB colors (instead of ColorPCBLayer_F.Cu, ColorPCBLayer_
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| Jon Evans (craftyjon) wrote | #1 |
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| assignee: | nobody → Jon Evans (craftyjon) |
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| Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris) wrote | #2 |
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| status: | New → In Progress |
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| milestone: | none → 5.0.0-rc1 |
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| KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote | #3 |
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| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
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| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Chris, I will address this with color themes feature unless you think it warrants a faster temporary fix.