After long meditation my plan is this: First idea (really good but has issues)
- Internal and names do not change (I myself am tired of these renames) - Default layer names for a board are the the internal ones - In the layer setup the user can rename all the layers (the original name is shown aside for reference if someone had the stupid idea to rename the front mask to something idiot) - Plot file name get the user name Biggest issue: The sexp board file contains the 'user' names, and that's not good (both for me and for Dick), so in the layer section the 'user name' should be added. Additionally the copper layers should be used with the internal id, too (for consistency). In this way you'd have (for example) in the layer header Inner2 "Grounds" (user name) and for the whole other file it would be used as Inner2. Motivation: if you rename the Mask, Solder or Paste layer you lose the *.xxx wildcards. Second idea (partial but a lot easier to do): - You can rename copper and comments layer, special layers are fixed - In the file you get the user name (since there are no wildcards involved nobody get hurt if I rename Comments to Clearances, for example); the sexp parser already handle nonstandard layer because of user copper names, so it should a painless modification. In both case obviously the module editor and non-board related stuff obviously keep the internal name. I think one of these should make *everybody* happy (I don't think that not renaming technical layer would be a big loss, anyway) Please comment -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
