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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I didn’t like Change because it sounded too much like Edit.  But Replace is good.

> On 10 Jan 2018, at 21:30, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm ok with replace.
> 
> On 1/10/2018 4:21 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>> Now I'm nit-picking but wouldn't "replace" be even better than
>> "change"?  That's what I see used in other tools and it might be less
>> ambiguous for translation.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Jeff,
>> 
>>    Please use "change" rather than "exchange".  Exchange means that there
>>    is some bidirectional event taking place.  This is not the case here.
>>    The existing footprint(s) is merely being replaced.
>> 
>>    I would prefer that the text edit control always be editable.  That way
>>    the user can change the reference, value, or footprint identifier.  I'm
>>    fine with pre-populating it based on a context menu selection but I
>>    might change my mind.  Being forced to close the dialog and reopen it
>>    using a different footprint just to get the value or reference I want
>>    would be annoying.
>> 
>>    Cheers,
>> 
>>    Wayne
>> 
>>    On 1/10/2018 11:11 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> This is primarily to address concerns that a lot of people can’t find
>>> the mechanism for updating footprints on a board to the current versions
>>> in the library [1].  But it also attempts to address ease-of-learning
>>> issues with the current Change Footprint dialog.
>>> 
>>> First, the Change Footprint dialog which comes up in the “normal”
>>> scenario (with a footprint selection):
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Wayne has also proposed adding one when there was no selection which
>>> would be a cross between this one and the Update Footprints dialog,
>>> following.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is the no-footprints-selected version.  You could also imagine one
>>> that was a cross with the Change Footprints version for when a footprint
>>> was selected.
>>> 
>>> Comments welcome.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466857
>>    <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466857>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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