Public/kicad-color-schemes
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

Add documentation for new theme system

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Jon Evans 2020-02-22 22:56:58 -05:00
parent 28fd271f1f
commit 226838d0da
1 changed files with 14 additions and 0 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

14
README.md
View file

@ -23,6 +23,20 @@ The script expects the directory containing the colour scheme and the kicad conf
Example: Example:
`python3 patch.py ~/kicad-color-schemes/blue-green-dark/ ~/.config/kicad/` `python3 patch.py ~/kicad-color-schemes/blue-green-dark/ ~/.config/kicad/`
## JSON themes (for KiCad 6, and "5.99" nightly builds after February 2020)
KiCad 6 is changing to a JSON-based colour theme system. Recent nightly builds already support the
new system, where each colour theme lives in a JSON file in the `colors` directory of the user
settings path (see "How to use a colour theme" above.)
To use the JSON version of a theme, just copy the file into your `colors` directory. The next time
you run KiCad, it will detect the new theme file and you will be able to choose it in the
preferences. Each KiCad application can use a different color theme if you wish.
In the new system, the footprint editor and PcbNew use the same color theme. If you would like to
have different colours for those two applications, the way to do it is to choose a different theme
file in the PcbNew and footprint editor preferences dialogs.
## eeschema ## eeschema
color-scheme | screenshot color-scheme | screenshot