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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi JP,

thanks a lot!!

I am a little unsure about this "Save as..." three dots thing used every
time the menu item takes you to a second window. but I will investigate
about UI stuff a little.

cheers
Fabrizio




On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:44 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 30/05/2017 à 14:54, Fabrizio Tappero a écrit :
> > Hello Wayne,
> > In attachment you can find a good review of approx 30 icons and a global
> > simplification of approx 30 icons.
> > I have also corrected some menu labels.
> >
> > Since there is a lot of corrected text that is very much related to
> > English, it would be great if you could review it before submitting it. A
> > not so fun work but I think it will make kicad a much better tool.
> >
> > I think it would be recommendable to avoid "a" and "the" in button and
> menu
> > tooltips. So that it way easier to understand what the button or tooltip
> is
> > about. The use of singular plural is also inconsistent and I tried to fix
> > it. Please Wayne feel free to make any changes you think is important.
> >
> > I have also notices that several menus are a little inconstant. I will
> try
> > work on it since I think the current kicad UI is very usable but it needs
> > to be more consistent.
> >
> > I have tried to fixed a lot of icons so that their meaning is more
> > immediate to understand. I have as well started a process of
> simplification
> > of many redundant icons. I think it is important that we begin simplifing
> > the kicad icon set because at the moment is really too large.
> >
> > Here below a detailed description of the changes.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Fabrizio
>
>
> Hi Fabrizio,
>
> I committed your icons.
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>