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[Diego Herranz <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding Front vs Top, I see it called Top everywhere else, but back to
the original question: +1 for Top/Front first.

Thanks,
Diego

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:52 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Why is it Front and Back, as opposed to Top and Bottom?
> Front/Top should be first.
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Right now, we have conflicting "desired order" for technical layers in
>> various places.
>>
>> The layer widget displays "front first", i.e. F.Paste before B.Paste,
>> F.Fab before B.Fab, etc.
>>
>> Everywhere else in the codebase is "back first".
>> This leads to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1673792
>> because the properties dialog is using LSET::UIOrder() which uses the
>> "preferred" back first ordering.
>>
>> Which way should we actually have it?  "front first" makes sense to me,
>> and that is the precedent set in the most user-visible part (the layer
>> manager) but then why in LSET::Technicals() is there a comment saying the
>> desired order is "back first"?
>>
>> -Jon
>>
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