Any chance of making it configurable? Or at least, of not being offended if I throw in a patch to do that? ;)
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 07:15:36PM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote: > On 25 June 2015 at 19:09, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you positive that a better fix wouldn't be to stop putting redundant > > things in component descriptions? > > It would be good if that wouldn't happen, yes. > But I can't change all the libraries that exist in the world; changing > only the KiCAD internal libraries would probably be feasible (need to > hack up something) and should probably be done independently. > > This change helps to have KiCAD behave best in the real world. > > -h > > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:24:33PM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote: > >> Hi, > >> In component descriptions, often the first word in the description is > >> a repetition of the component name. While this is generally not a > >> problem when reading this in a description box, if displayed in the > >> brief description in the tree view, this is redundant information, > >> taking space of more relevant information (see first attachment > >> picture). > >> > >> This patch uses some heuristic to get rid of these and thus generally > >> improves the experience for these components: > >> > >> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/skip-redundant-name-repetition-in-tree.diff > >> > >> See second picture for an example. > >> > >> Henner. > > > > > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > -- > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
