On 25 June 2015 at 19:34, Marco Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > I am assuming that it is only removed from the description when it matches > the component name?
Yes, only then. > i.e. If I use a different naming convention where the component name is not > necessarily repeated in the description, this patch is a NOOP? Exactly. if the description doesn't start with the component name, it displays the whole description. > > > On 26-Jun-15 11:58, Henner Zeller wrote: >> >> 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 > > > -- > Marco Hess > Through IP Pty. Ltd. - AUSTRALIA > www.through-ip.com | [email protected] > p: +61 407 78 55 66 | f: +61 8 8121 6191 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
