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["dioioib" <dioiioib@...>]

I agree with the kicad agnostics comment. I am just use to the old menus now. 

I'll keep testing the new build and see if I can find a real reason to suggest something different other than an issue with growing pains. 

-Brian Durocher

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "emmedics4" <marco.serantoni@...> wrote:
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> --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "dioioib" <dioiioib@> wrote:
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> > Does this change make the program inconsistent with the windows versionof the program? Does this only work towards making the interface more mac like for the use of kicad? I have used the new build with the change of themain menu items breefly and find the change frustrating. The menu arrangment seemed fine to begin with, easy to follow. 
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> What i've in mind about configuration was something like Firefox, that isall but not an example of application following a single platform paradigm.
> About the new menu arrangement wasn't mine but was a Jerry work, i personally think that this arrangement is more rational than the old one for example:
> - All Input and output files operation are placed in the File menu.
> - 3d view, netlist and zoom are placed in the View menu.
> - Undo, Redo, Find, working parameter needed to edit are placed in the Edit menu.
> etc.
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> I think that those places is where a kicad agnostic trys first to find those operations on the other side, is true, moving those could be annoying and destabilizing for old users, but in my opinion reorganize was a choice that was to be taken sooner or later after a long, incremental, adding of voices. 
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> Marco
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