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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a mostly user and occasional code hacker, here are my thoughts:

The EDA tool industry is trending towards more integration, as many of the
commercial products were originally formed from separate applications
(often from separate companies originally).  I have used a number of
commercial products and they are all this way. Having separate applications
with separate lineage makes for less-than-optimal usability and workflow,
and so all the vendors are trying to move towards integration -- either by
putting everything in a single binary, or more often, keeping multiple
binaries, but branding them together, making sure the UIs look consistent,
and having lots of integration between them so it doesn't feel like a
struggle to go between the different binaries for different parts of the
EDA workflow.

So, I'm in favor of rebranding the KiCad applications, because I think it's
in line with the work you all are doing to improve the user workflow and
improve the integration between the schematic, layout, and library
workflows.  I also think it would be good to include the name change in a
"marketing message" to the user community about a focus on the whole EDA
workflow, not separate applications in silos.  Even if you technically can
run the schematic editor separate from the PCB layout tool, if you have the
*mindset* that they are all pieces of the same puzzle and need to fit
together, it can influence the philosophy of the project.

But, as JP mentioned, this would be a big deal in terms of documentation
and resources on the web.  I would suggest that the problems can be
overcome, but only if the communications and timing of the change is
handled well.

-Jon

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:54 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 02/02/2017 à 19:13, Pedro Martin a écrit :
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Beginners solve this issue... reading the manual.
> >
> > Why not keep the actual names only because JP named them this way?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pedro.
> >
>
> Thanks Pedro.
> But the major issue which must be taken in account it not that.
>
> Changing names has serious results:
> * Documentation and all the translations has to be modified.
> Opinion was asked to devs, to users, but not to doc
> writers/translators,and this is really not fair.
> * Links on Internet cannot be modified, and there are a lot of hits
> regarding kicad:
> I really agree Cvpcb is not a good name, but just try "Cvpcb" on Google .
>
> Before changing these names you have to  *seriously* think to the results.
> (Think about that not only twice, but 3 times about that)
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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