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Re: Tweaks to about dialog

 

It seems that some characters are not rendered properly in the names
anymore, like Ø. Maybe this is because of the removal of the wxT macros.

2017-11-28 0:23 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Oliver,
>
> I merged your patch in the development branch.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 11/26/2017 06:07 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> >     I'm not opposed to a
> >     contributors list on the website although I personally am not
> terribly
> >     interested in maintaining this list.
> >
> >
> > And yet we have an outdated list _compiled into a binary_ which does not
> > reflect the great contributions made by the new 3D modelling team. I am
> > not suggesting that we add everyone (quite the opposite), but just
> > offload this to somewhere it can be updated without recompiling KiCad.
> >
> > In any case, please find attached an updated patch which only fixes the
> > links on the first tab, removing the outdated smisoto links.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 11/24/2017 04:01 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> >     > Can we have a link to a page on the website where we have a long
> form
> >     > list? Updating a binary file with a fluid list of contributors
> seems hokey.
> >
> >     I know it's a bit dated but I think having credits in the
> application is
> >     a nice reward for folks who have contributed.  I'm not opposed to a
> >     contributors list on the website although I personally am not
> terribly
> >     interested in maintaining this list.
> >
> >     >
> >     > The 3D models for example are now script generated using Maurice's
> tools
> >     > but contributed by various people.
> >     >
> >     > On 25 Nov 2017 06:37, "Simon Wells" <swel024@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:
> swel024@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     > <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Well if you want to keep that panel it should represent all
> those
> >     >     people who have provided artistry to kicad, as such for those
> non
> >     >     programmers maybe there needs to be a script or similar that
> someone
> >     >     can just put their name in and it will spit out a patch that
> can be
> >     >     submitted to the mailing list
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     > On 25/11/2017, at 3:44 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <
> stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     >     <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>>
> wrote:
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Oliver,
> >     >     >
> >     >     > I would rather not remove the artists panel from the about
> dialog.  I
> >     >     > know some of those folks haven't contributed recently but
> many of them
> >     >     > contributed a lot of bitmaps and icons over the years so
> they deserve
> >     >     > credit for the efforts.  The remaining changes are fine.
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Cheers,
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Wayne
> >     >     >
> >     >     > On 11/23/2017 08:31 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> >     >     >> As mentioned in previous thread, I have made some slight
> changes
> >     >     to the
> >     >     >> About dialog.
> >     >     >>
> >     >     >> 1. Wording / link tweaks
> >     >     >> 2. Removed references to outdated links (now better served
> from the
> >     >     >> kicad-pcb.org <http://kicad-pcb.org> <http://kicad-pcb.org>
> >     <http://kicad-pcb.org> site)
> >     >     >> 3. Removed "artists" tab - very outdated, 3D models are now
> community
> >     >     >> contributed
> >     >     >>
> >     >     >> I have also added myself as a developer credit - if this is
> an
> >     >     >> acceptable indulgence.
> >     >     >>
> >     >     >> Patch attached.
> >     >     >>
> >     >     >> Regards,
> >     >     >>
> >     >     >>
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