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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

While I agree with the time valuation, hobbyists using KiCad do not
necessarily spend lots of money on screen real estate. Besides, it doesn't
mean large resolution screens are placed in landscape mode. I myself have
my main monitor in portrait because code is what is displayed most often on
it. That being said, for 1280px, we can even go to 30 characters and that
still leaves at least as much for the Description column.

I'll indeed need commit rights to the library repo.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/30/2013 11:34 AM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> > I'll do it.
> >
> > Where does the number 25 come from? If it's just a number off the top of
> your head, I'll
> > do some resolution tests and see what looks good for say a minimum of
> 1280px width.
> > (Netbooks will excuse me)
>
> IMO if a KiCad user is not using a dual monitor for design, then his
> employer is
> under-valuing his time.  Employer is customer or boss or self.  This
> opinion extends well
> beyond netbooks being inadequate.
>
>
> 25 is arbitrary (arbitrarily short).
>
>
> You need commit rights to library repo or already have them?  I will
> implement the CMake
> uninstall feature for the libraries, so the old ones can be yanked in our
> linux script
> before installing the new ones.  Or by anyone else using cmake for
> installation.
>
> Fortunately footprint names are not changing, and footprints which are
> already in BOARDs
> are obviously not affected.  Schematic part libraries are not affected, 3D
> libraries are
> not affected.  Only footprint library names, and for a user using
> fp_lib_table support, he
> will be given your shiny fp-lib-table to ease the transition.
>
> I don't know how to make improvements without change.
>
> Any objections?
>
> Dick
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
> l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:31:05AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> >     > a) *Nicknames*: revise the template/fp-lib-table file wrt
> nicknames:
> >     >   i) no longer than 25 characters
> >     >   ii) adopt a consistent choice of capitalization
> >
> >     I think that's a good idea (altough it's more for the library
> people)...
> >     it's one little ugliness in the eeschema field, too. However I don't
> >     think that 25 should be an hard enforced limit, a guideline should be
> >     enough.
> >
> >     > b) shorten the name of *Library Path* entries, this means renaming
> most footprint
> >     > libraries in the bzr repo to remove any reference to date or
> revision and to remove any
> >     > inclusion of part names.
> >
> >     Same as above :D
> >
> >     > c) add the previously existing references to part names which were
> in the library names,
> >     > into the "Description" column of the fp-lib-table if the author so
> desires.
> >
> >     Also: do we really need so many fine-grained libraries, especially
> with the
> >     pretty format?
> >
> >     --
> >     Lorenzo Marcantonio
> >     Logos Srl
> >
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