Lines vs Arcs : Different Behavior for Color

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Issue

Seen below is a line and two corner arcs:

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The left arc and the line are both colored red, despite the arc appearing blue:

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The arc has a note which states:

Note: individual item colors overridden in Preferences.

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The use of Preferences might be antiquated:

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however, under Kicad --> Settings --> Schematic Editor --> Colors,

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The category Schematic text & graphics matches the color, and in the top-right, Override individual item colors applies.

Override individual item colors can be deselected and then applied with OK, but it reverts immediately to selected, likely because this is a part of the wDark theme.

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  • Why does this behavior only apply to arcs and not lines?
  • Is there a means, with the theme still applied, to manually color arcs and other shapes?
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No, BUT

Preferences > Colors > New Theme > name your new theme then OK will give you a new theme that is both able to be modified AND will start with the theme you are already using.
ie. It will give you a modifiable version of “wDark”.

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Thank you.

Are you able to explain why lines behave differently?

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Working on that :smiley:

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Whoops —

:foot: :arrow_right: :lips:

:zipper_mouth_face:

:sweat_smile:

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Mine changes.

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Note: I’m using my “new theme” version of wDark so there is no overriding warning.
I’m also using a different OS… Linux Mint.

You’ve tried this in your New Theme?

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No, rather I wondered if lines not being considered individual items was a bug.

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There is something wrong somewhere.

No problem with personal version but the read-only has a problem.
I’m messing around with the Kicad classic (read only) to see if it differs also.

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Yeah, looks like a bug.

This problem is only in arcs, and only in the "wDark (Schematic-only)(read-only).

Kicad default & classic and the wDark (when copied to a personal scheme) are all OK.

Well spotted. :smiley:

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