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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/12/2016 6:49 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Same reason all our other stupid quirks bother me.
> 
> KiCad is this: http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/2236.png

I particularly like the "view master vr slot" option.

> 
> We have a million weird little tacked-on additions that all scratch some
> individual person's tiny itch because they can't be arsed to pull up the
> About box if they want to know which specific version they have
> installed. Any time anyone proposes removing one of these bells or
> whistles, it gets bikeshedded to death by the sort of people who want
> the bikeshed painted orange with glow-in-the-dark green polka dots
> because it's easier for them to find the shed that way. It makes our
> software look unpolished, unprofessional, and cobbled-together. And
> unlike some people, I don't think that's the way open-source software
> has to be.
> 
> Is it too much to ask that we pay attention to other people who have
> solved UI problems before us? Trust me, if there were a good reason to
> include version numbers in titles, other applications would do it. At a
> quick check through the other software I have on my system, the only
> other one that does this is Xilinx ISE. ISE's UI reminds me of KiCad in
> other ways, too...
> 
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:03:26AM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> I quite like it, but I don't have any hard feeling for it.
>>
>> I am not sure why it borthers you.
>>
>> 2016-09-12 1:08 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Sorry for the delayed response.  I was out of town this weekend with
>>> only a cell phone so my motivation to respond to emails was low.  I have
>>> no personal attachment to version strings in the title bar.  Very few
>>> applications that I have ever seen include the version in the title bar.
>>> As a developer, it's nice to see which build I'm using without having to
>>> open the about box but that's not something I do often.  As a user, it
>>> tends to take up quite a bit of title bar space which can be annoying.
>>> Anyone else just got to have the version string in the title bar?
>>>
>>> On 9/9/2016 11:37 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>> Along the lines of the version strings - is anyone particularly attached
>>>> to having them in the window titles? It's a bit odd, no other
>>>> applications seem to do that. I kinda want to take them out, if just to
>>>> make things a bit more "normal"...
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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