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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/26/2016 1:29 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since we seem to have (mostly) agreed that the red bikeshed is okay,
> here's a patch to fix up the window titles. I didn't just rip out
> version numbers, I went through and rewrote them all to use mostly the
> same format (as they're currently rather inconsistent). The new format
> is "Application — file", with variants as necessary ("Application — file
> [Read Only]", "Application — sheet [sheetpath] — file", etc).
> 
> There is one 'interesting' place: eeschema/backanno.cpp:236
> 
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/master/eeschema/backanno.cpp#L236
> 
> I have no idea why we would want to put the .cmp file name in the
> eeschema title bar in the first place, and furthermore couldn't actually
> find a case where it wasn't immediately overwritten anyway. Not sure
> why that's even there - I ripped it out. Let me know if anyone knows
> what that's actually for...

That is odd.  Typically externally loaded file names are displayed in
the message panel not on the title bar.  I'm OK with removing it
although displaying it on the message panel would give the user some
feedback.

> 
> 
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