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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I kind of enjoy the French names.  It keeps me on my toes!  Besides,
AFAIK it's the last of the French strings in KiCad.  When I joined the
project most of the source code comments were in French.  I'm the one
who translated them all to English so I could work on the project.  I
actually thought about leaving one comment in French for sentimental
reasons so I'm actually fine with the French layer names in the demo
project. :)

On 2/26/2018 1:07 PM, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:
> Yes Wayne, thanks.
> 
> JP, it's all your fault, demos shouldn't have proprietary Frenchy layer
> names. :D
> 
> I think the demos should have proper layer names, I forgot the layer
> names could be changed because I almost never go to Layer Setup.
> It would be confusing for beginners when looking at demo boards.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:42 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Copper layers can be renamed so I only expect the layer names F.Cu and
>     B.Cu when I have not renamed them.  I'm guessing you have one of the
>     kicad demo projects open based on the French layer names which JP likes
>     to use.
> 
>     On 2/25/2018 8:59 PM, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:
>     > Not sure if this is the right thread that dealt with Layers tab, but
>     > anyone else thinks the first 2 names should say:
>     > F.Copper
>     > B.Copper
>     >
>     > instead of:
>     > Inline image 1
>     >
>     > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Andrzej Wolski <awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     There is a simple fix to this problem, patch in attachment. It
>     needs
>     >     to be applied on top of this patch:
>     >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1743890
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1743890>
>     >     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1743890
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1743890>>
>     >
>     >     Witch this patch there is another issue: when all layers (in Layer
>     >     tab) are hidden, anchors and invisible text are still displayed.
>     >     I'm not sure what to do about it, maybe they also should be
>     hidden?
>     >
>     >     Cheers,
>     >     Andrzej
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     On 02/07/2018 04:24 PM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
>     >
>     >         Hey!
>     >
>     >         Another confusion arised when I was speaking to a friend. When
>     >         disabling the F.Cu layer, the pads are still visible. I can
>     >         understand the need to be able to disable the pads on the
>     front
>     >         layer separate from everything else, to check for things under
>     >         pads etc.
>     >
>     >         What I cannot understand is why the pads are visible if I want
>     >         to disable the entire front layer in pcbnew, also if one wants
>     >         transparent layers, one can actually se the compositioning for
>     >         the front pads and front traces, and allowing them to be
>     >         different colors also seem a bit confusing actually.
>     >
>     >         I could basically change the front pad colors to look like
>     they
>     >         belong to the back layer, I know its stupid, but this
>     seems like
>     >         the kind of thing one would not want to even be possible,
>     except
>     >         maybe for pranks.
>     >
>     >         TLDR;
>     >
>     >         Possible bugs:
>     >         1. pads not affected by layer visibility setting
>     >         2. pads and layer compositioning even when same setting
>     >         3. pads and corresponding layer color setting
>     >
>     >         Possible solution:
>     >         1. Both layer and pads setting must be enabled for pads to
>     render.
>     >         2. Seems hard, Dont know
>     >         3. pads and layer share color setting, not necessarily opacity
>     >         setting.
>     >
>     >         Comments on these?
>     >
>     >
>     >
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