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Re: [Kicad-doc-devs] string change proposal

 

Wow, that sentence is unnecessarily long.

By rephrasing, you can cut that text in half. Also, why is text editor and
PDF viewer in the same context? Default text editor and default PDF viewer
do not open the same files, is this a context for a Group where those 2 are
defined, weird...

Telling the user that he "may define" a"Default Text Editor" is redundant,
same for favorite, default is better, that's what is seen across many
programs, you define a default program to open files, you don't define a
favorite program. "These settings" redundant because you are in a settings
editor window, duhh.

How about "Set default text editor and PDF viewer programs"?

If you want to be more explicit: "Set default text editor and PDF viewer
programs for use by KiCad" or "Set default text editor and PDF viewer
programs to open files from KiCad"

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> > On Feb 7, 2018, at 5:09 AM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am not a native english,
>
> Your English is better than my Italian!
>
> > so I think it is better to ask even for small phrases:
> >
> > Here:
> >
> > #. type: Plain text
> > #: kicad.adoc:246
> > msgid ""
> > "You may define your favorite text editor and PDF viewer. These settings
> are "
> > "used whenever you want to open a text or PDF file."
> >
> > I would have written it in a more esplicit way like:
> >
> > "You may define your favorite text editor and PDF viewer. These settings
> are "
> > "used by KiCad whenever you want to open a text or PDF file from the
> inside "
> > "of any of the KiCad tools."
> >
> > Comments?
>
> In general, I’m a fan of being as explicit and clear as possible. But, in
> this case, I think the user should be aware that s/he’s setting something
> from within Kicad, and as such that setting is only relevant when
> interacting with a Kicad tool.
>
> -a
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