On 9/12/2016 6:49 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > Same reason all our other stupid quirks bother me. > > KiCad is this: http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/2236.png
I particularly like the "view master vr slot" option. > > We have a million weird little tacked-on additions that all scratch some > individual person's tiny itch because they can't be arsed to pull up the > About box if they want to know which specific version they have > installed. Any time anyone proposes removing one of these bells or > whistles, it gets bikeshedded to death by the sort of people who want > the bikeshed painted orange with glow-in-the-dark green polka dots > because it's easier for them to find the shed that way. It makes our > software look unpolished, unprofessional, and cobbled-together. And > unlike some people, I don't think that's the way open-source software > has to be. > > Is it too much to ask that we pay attention to other people who have > solved UI problems before us? Trust me, if there were a good reason to > include version numbers in titles, other applications would do it. At a > quick check through the other software I have on my system, the only > other one that does this is Xilinx ISE. ISE's UI reminds me of KiCad in > other ways, too... > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:03:26AM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote: >> I quite like it, but I don't have any hard feeling for it. >> >> I am not sure why it borthers you. >> >> 2016-09-12 1:08 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com>: >>> Sorry for the delayed response. I was out of town this weekend with >>> only a cell phone so my motivation to respond to emails was low. I have >>> no personal attachment to version strings in the title bar. Very few >>> applications that I have ever seen include the version in the title bar. >>> As a developer, it's nice to see which build I'm using without having to >>> open the about box but that's not something I do often. As a user, it >>> tends to take up quite a bit of title bar space which can be annoying. >>> Anyone else just got to have the version string in the title bar? >>> >>> On 9/9/2016 11:37 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >>>> Along the lines of the version strings - is anyone particularly attached >>>> to having them in the window titles? It's a bit odd, no other >>>> applications seem to do that. I kinda want to take them out, if just to >>>> make things a bit more "normal"... >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp