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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

While testing the feature I found Replace to be a bit off-putting.  It was like a fixup, suggesting something had been lost that needed replacing.

So, barring any further input, I’d like to go with Change, despite my earlier misgivings. ;)

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 10 Jan 2018, at 21:47, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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