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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I want the description column to show exactly what's in the component 
description field, as it does now. I'm not opposed to different 
behavior, I'd just ideally like an optional way to keep it the way it 
is. I maintain my own libraries, and if there's something wrong with 
them like that, I'd rather see it so I can fix it!

I don't think I'm the only one who'd like to see major interface 
elements like that stay relatively simple and predictable.

It's POLA - it claims to be a description column, so you expect it to 
directly show the description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 07:28:31PM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote:
> 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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> >> >
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