On 25 June 2015 at 19:18, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> wrote: > Any chance of making it configurable? Or at least, of not being offended > if I throw in a patch to do that? ;)
What do you want to make configurable ? Do you _want_ to see the redundant information ? > > 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
