I think I am going to seek out some user views on this. As usual it doesn't do us much good to speculate about what non-developers want.
I will say that so far two users have told me that the weird names confused them as beginners, and only established developers have argued in favor of keeping them. ;) On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I don't have a strong opinion one way or another but you should never > underestimate the power of branding. You can take the same car and > change the manufacturer and model names and the same person who liked > the car under one brand name will hate it under another brand name. I > never understood this myself but I'm not a marketing guru. User are > familiar with the application names and given that the applications can > still be run in stand alone mode, it may make sense to keep them. > > On 2/2/2017 8:56 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > I admit I'm getting self-indulgent here, this request is definitely a > > bit "what Chris would do if made Dictator of KiCad", but... just testing > > the waters here: > > > > What do people think about, for either the 5.0 or 6.0 release, ditching > > the old application names, in favor of everything being one tool under > > the "KiCad" roof: > > > > Eeschema -> Schematic editor > > Pcbnew -> PCB editor, or Layout editor, or Board editor > > Cvpcb -> "Assign Footprints" > > Pl Editor -> Title block editor > > Bitmap2Component -> Remove as independent app, make "Import image" in > > libedit and modedit > > Rename or not, this change makes sense to me. Being able to directly > import an image as a symbol or footprint would be an improvement over > the way it's currently done. Although it would probably be useful for > library developers to be able to run it as a stand alone app as well. > > > > > I know this one is going to be controversial, but I don't really see the > > point of these old names. They're... weird. Cvpcb - what does that even > > mean? :P > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
