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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was thinking it could just be a small description in on of the blog
posts, alternatively an addition to one of the existing ones or just a
completely new one.  GAL versus default.

2015-12-16 16:40 GMT+01:00 Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>:
> That's something that should be in the documentation not website. We
> shouldn't be keeping documentation in two places.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think this is good, partly because I think calling it legacy canvas
>> is more accurate (hence that is what I have called it always) and it
>> is a stronger indicator that it is deprecated. On a side note to this,
>> I think we might need to actually describe a bit better what the
>> difference is on the kicad website, but I am really bad at doing such
>> things so I have not done it. I guess a lot of newcomers could easily
>> become confused.
>>
>> 2015-12-16 15:45 GMT+01:00 Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Due to the "Default Canvas" being called the "Legacy Canvas" is it not time
>>> to change it in kicad. The current naming of Default canvas also is a bit
>>> confusing as you would normally see the "Default" one listed as its name as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> The patch i have attached changes all references to Default canvas that i
>>> could find, and also changes the enums to CANVAS_LEGACY from CANVAS_DEFAULT
>>>
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