disabling selection highlighting in the preferences breaks FC

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Re: disabling selection highlighting in the preferences breaks FC

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openBrain wrote: Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:25 pm I think we can improve a bit the UI of the preferences to make it clearer. ;) I have to admit there is some room for improvement there.
Definitely. But how. Do you have a proposal. At least better wording and a proper tooltip would help people.

Originally I just wanted to turn off that my parts get the green selection just be selecting a feature in the tree view. It seems this is not possible to turn this off, right?
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Re: disabling selection highlighting in the preferences breaks FC

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uwestoehr wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:55 am Definitely. But how. Do you have a proposal. At least better wording and a proper tooltip would help people.
My first thought is to visually split the line in 2 parts :
* Enable selection (with the checkbox)
* Selection color (with the color chooser)
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Re: disabling selection highlighting in the preferences breaks FC

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I would put enable selection in the 3D view tab rather than the color tab, and in the color tab you have the selection highlight option. Do we need to separate the preselection checkbox too?
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Re: disabling selection highlighting in the preferences breaks FC

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I would put enable selection in the 3D view tab rather than the color tab
I would put enable selection in the Selection tab rather than the 3D view tab.

That's a new tab that has been added 1.5 years ago and provides the settings that has been implemented with the Link branch.
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Re: disabling selection highlighting in the preferences breaks FC

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In the general settings right? Currently it's in the display settings so I looked at the tabs in that section, but your idea is even better.
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Re: disabling selection highlighting in the preferences breaks FC

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openBrain wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:18 am My first thought is to visually split the line in 2 parts :
* Enable selection (with the checkbox)
* Selection color (with the color chooser)
wmayer wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:30 am I would put enable selection in the Selection tab rather than the 3D view tab.

That's a new tab that has been added 1.5 years ago and provides the settings that has been implemented with the Link branch.
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/9813
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