In library editor tree selected and currently opened items aren't very distinct on MSW

Bug #1822104 reported by eelik
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
New
Unknown

Bug Description

There are still some rough edges in the footprint editor tree view. One is that, at least on Windows, the currently selected (clicked with mouse) and the currently opened items aren't easy to distinguish from each other. The currently opened footprint and its library seem to be both selected. If I select something else with mouse there are three items which look like selected. I have attached a screenshot. Without prior knowledge, who can tell what is actually selected and what happens when I click the RMB somewhere?

I suggest that the currently opened footprint and its library are marked active by some other means, for example with bold font and/or some extra mark.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-34-g078320e2f), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

Revision history for this message
eelik (eelik) wrote :
description: updated
Changed in kicad:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Jeff Young (jeyjey)
summary: - In fp editor tree selected and currently opened items aren't distinct
+ In fp editor tree selected and currently opened items aren't very
+ distinct on MSW
tags: added: ui
tags: added: pcbnew windows
summary: - In fp editor tree selected and currently opened items aren't very
+ In library editor tree selected and currently opened items aren't very
distinct on MSW
tags: added: eeschema
Revision history for this message
KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote :

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1884

Changed in kicad:
status: Triaged → Expired
Changed in kicad:
importance: Low → Unknown
status: Expired → New
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