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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the user response on the forum has been overwhelmingly in favor:

https://forum.kicad.info/t/non-devs-what-do-you-think-of-the-app-names/5147

That said, I'm in no hurry to do this - like I said, I'm just seeking
out opinions to know whether people agree with me or not. I'd like to
see it happen someday, but it's by no means high-priority.


On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:46:37PM -0500, 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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