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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think I am going to seek out some user views on this. As usual it
doesn't do us much good to speculate about what non-developers want.

I will say that so far two users have told me that the weird names
confused them as beginners, and only established developers have argued
in favor of keeping them. ;)

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I don't have a strong opinion one way or another but you should never
> underestimate the power of branding.  You can take the same car and
> change the manufacturer and model names and the same person who liked
> the car under one brand name will hate it under another brand name.  I
> never understood this myself but I'm not a marketing guru.  User are
> familiar with the application names and given that the applications can
> still be run in stand alone mode, it may make sense to keep them.
> 
> On 2/2/2017 8:56 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > I admit I'm getting self-indulgent here, this request is definitely a
> > bit "what Chris would do if made Dictator of KiCad", but... just testing
> > the waters here:
> > 
> > What do people think about, for either the 5.0 or 6.0 release, ditching
> > the old application names, in favor of everything being one tool under
> > the "KiCad" roof:
> > 
> > Eeschema    -> Schematic editor
> > Pcbnew      -> PCB editor, or Layout editor, or Board editor
> > Cvpcb       -> "Assign Footprints"
> > Pl Editor   -> Title block editor
> > Bitmap2Component    -> Remove as independent app, make "Import image" in
> >                        libedit and modedit
> 
> Rename or not, this change makes sense to me.  Being able to directly
> import an image as a symbol or footprint would be an improvement over
> the way it's currently done.  Although it would probably be useful for
> library developers to be able to run it as a stand alone app as well.
> 
> > 
> > I know this one is going to be controversial, but I don't really see the
> > point of these old names. They're... weird. Cvpcb - what does that even
> > mean? :P
> > 
> 
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