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[Michael Steinberg <michsteinb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 14.12.2016 um 21:21 schrieb jp charras:
> 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.
Hello!
While I understand the argument, I have to confess that I don't 
particularly like when standard terms are translated to my language, 
especially if it takes screen estate. In the end you will need to learn 
them anyways. Then again it's no problem to simply use the english 
version in first place...