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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a good idea.

On 2/2/2017 12:46 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> 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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