Matthew Skala commented on issue #5311 at KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad

Matthew Skala
2020-08-25T17:54:32Z

Although I believe that there have been versions that have worked the way I've described - possibly even prior to 4.0 if no 4.0 versions did this - that's not really the point.

It would be better that this button be able to turn crosshairs both on and off.

It would be better that the choice of crosshairs on or off not be changed as a side effect of selecting tools.

It would be better that there be no state of the program - and especially not the default state at startup - in which this button is without any visible effect.