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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

On 25 June 2015 at 19:18, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any chance of making it configurable? Or at least, of not being offended
> if I throw in a patch to do that? ;)

What do you want to make configurable ? Do you _want_ to see the
redundant information ?

>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 07:15:36PM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> >
>> > 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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>> > Chris
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