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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

These are the accepted terms and should be used for UI strings.  At some
point when I have nothing better to do, I will update the source code
terminology so that these two terms are used everywhere.

On 11/22/2017 08:31 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> +1 for "symbol" and "footprint"
> 
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 08:14:02AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     > The devs discussed this some time ago and the general consensus is that
>     > symbol is the preferred term.  I've already started converting the UI
>     > strings to use the term symbol.  I'm sure there are UI strings that I
>     > missed.  If you find them, please let me know so I can correct them.
>     >
> 
>     I think that then there is some term confusion here ...
> 
>     #: eeschema/menubar.cpp:462
>     msgid ""
>     "Edit components to symbols library links to switch to an other
>     library link "
>     "(library IDs)"
> 
>     This obviously is not "symbol to symbol link" ...
> 
>     I really think that we should stick with the terms "footprint" and
>     "symbol" only, and get rid of all the "component", "part", "module" and
>     such altogether...
> 
>     TIA
> 
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>     Marco Ciampa
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