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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/14/2016 3:21 PM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 14/12/2016 à 20:51, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>> Can we rename "Normal" and "Normal+Insert" to "THT" and "SMT", or
>> "Through hole" and "Surface mount", or something similarly descriptive?
>> I *still* have to mouse over for the tooltip to remember which is
>> which...
>>
> 
> I agree.
> But do not use short names.
> 
> "Through hole component" and "Surface mount component", or something similar is better, because too
> short names are *really* hard to translate.
> 

This change makes sense to me.  I agree with the using the full names
rather than the abbreviations.