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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

tbh I'd totally support adding one to pcbnew.

On Sep 12, 2016 08:49, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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