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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, in the KiCad codebase, they are called Front and Back, and my question
is independent of whether or not they should be called Top and Bottom :-)

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Diego Herranz <
diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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>> Live Long and Prosper,
>> Andrey
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