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[David J S Briscoe <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just been playing with V6132 of PCBNEW. I have a number of small 
observations.

1/  In the layer manager toolbar the Top and Bottom layer are named 
Composant and Cuivre. Why is this even though I am using English as my 
language?
2/ The same words are used for the top and bottom layer in the Track and 
Via properties dialog.

Track highlighting in OpenGL mode.

1/ When I click on the track highlighting icon the cursor changes to a 
large cross. I can then highlight a track. However if I then try to 
un-highlight the same track I have to
move the cursor back to the highlight button and unclick it. When I do 
this the board pans uncontrollably off the screen whilst I'm moving the 
cursor towards the highlight button.
I still can not un-highlight the track. How is a track un-highlighted. 
Surely it would be more intuitive to click on the track once to 
highlight and then again to un-highlight it? How can the panning be 
turned off or controlled?

Why is the Freeroute Icon still available even though the website does 
not work any more? I did click on it but it just provides an opportunity 
to export a .ses file. Maybe the tooltip should be changed to reflect this?

I'll send in a few more observations next week as I start to use the 
latest version more. Thanks.

David.