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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

On 25 June 2015 at 19:09, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you positive that a better fix wouldn't be to stop putting redundant
> things in component descriptions?

It would be good if that wouldn't happen, yes.
But I can't change all the libraries that exist in the world; changing
only the KiCAD internal libraries would probably be feasible (need to
hack up something) and should probably be done independently.

This change helps to have KiCAD behave best in the real world.

-h

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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:24:33PM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote:
>> Hi,
>> In component descriptions, often the first word in the description is
>> a repetition of the component name. While this is generally not a
>> problem when reading this in a description box, if displayed in the
>> brief description in the tree view, this is redundant information,
>> taking space of more relevant information (see first attachment
>> picture).
>>
>> This patch uses some heuristic to get rid of these and thus generally
>> improves the experience for these components:
>>
>> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/skip-redundant-name-repetition-in-tree.diff
>>
>> See second picture for an example.
>>
>> Henner.
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