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Re: [PATCH] Unify window title formats, remove versions from titles

 

Please don't commit this for me, I forgot to update copyright date on the
files I modified. I'll do it later tonight.

On Sep 26, 2016 2:49 PM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/26/2016 2:08 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 01:59:11PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Okay. If you're fine with the rest, then this should be ready for commit
> > - adding the .cmp file to the message panel should probably be done in a
> > separate commit if we do that.
>
> That's fine by me.
>
> >
> > Personally I don't think it's necessary, though - this is done right
> > after showing the user a file-select dialog. Is it really necessary to
> > tell the user what they just selected?
>
> Probably not since the user will get an error dialog if the file fails
> to load properly.  I can live without it.
>
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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