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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

In that case I think this information should be nixed entirely. It serves
no real purpose to include front-and-center in the about screen. All that
info can be gleaned from the library repositories if users are really
interested.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The only way I can see any of that information staying relevant is if it
> is collated at run time from a text file or something in each of the
> individual repos that are used, that way when someone submits a lib they
> can include a name in the text file if they so wish, and then the about
> code could just parse the list and dump that information out.
>
>
>
> > On 22/11/2017, at 11:45 PM, Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@gmail.
> com> wrote:
> >
> > In the "About" dialog, under the "Artists" tab, I note that Christophe
> Boschat and Renie Marquet are credited with creation of the 3D models.
> >
> > I believe this is very outdated information, and there have been a few
> high value contributors of 3D model data in the library repositories.
> >
> > Unless anyone objects, I think this information should be redacted,
> rather than having to play catch up.
> >
> > Additionally, there is a fair bit of outdated info on the "Information"
> tab that could probably just point to the KiCad website...
> >
> > At the very least I would like to update this to remove info about (for
> e.g.) the smisioto libraries.
> >
> > Thoughts? Unless there are any objections I'll issue a patch.
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