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[Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 October 2014 16:43, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I submitted this as a merge request but it may be best to discuss it
> on the mailing list.
>
> I started to hit up the other Eeschema dialogs while I was working on
> the hotkey editor.
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~mark-roszko/kicad/eeschema-dialog-tweaks
>
> Changes:
> =========
> -Use the verb "Generate" rather than the noun "Netlist" on the button
> in the Netlist Dialog. Netlist isn't a real verb.
> -Use the verb "Annotate" instead of the noun "Annotation" in the
> Annotate Schematic dialog.
>
> -ERC Dialog:
> --***Add tooltips to ERC options matrix buttons to indicate what their
> current state is, for newb friendliness.***
> --Cleanup ERC options code that for some reason decided to delete the
> button and recreate it instead of just updating it's bitmap directly.
> --Fix dialog title to be "Electrical Rules Checker" to match everywhere
else.
> --Fix all usages of "Erc" to "ERC" consistently.
> --Move action buttons to bottom of dialog, make Del Markers actually
> say Delete Markers.
> --Make the "Test Erc" button into "Run" because you are running the
> electrical rules checker and not testing it.
>
> Before: http://i.imgur.com/J4hP7Gl.png
> After: http://i.imgur.com/DbEWX1o.png , http://i.imgur.com/WJeRUJ7.png
>
>
> Only real changes of contention are the buttons in ERC dialog moving
> and the Netlist vs Generate word usage.

Just from looking at the screenshots: in the ERC report section, another
fix would be to have "Total error count", "Warning count", and "Error
count" rather than the pluralised versions at the moment.