On 7/16/2015 1:40 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 01:37:02PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 7/16/2015 11:17 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: >>> Hi again, >>> >>> We've received a question from another disappointed user, who is trying >>> to read a .kicad_pcb file with translated layer names. For the moment >>> the only way to fix this is by hand-editing the file. >> >> I do not believe this is entirely true. AFAIK, using the previous >> stable version, you should be able to open the board and temporarily set >> the language to English and save the board which should set the layer >> names in the board file back to the default English translations. > > Do you really think that is an acceptable solution? Nobody is going to > know to do that!
I don't think asking the user to do something as simple as opening a board in Pcbnew, and selecting Preferences->Language->English and hitting the save button is unacceptable. It's not ideal but neither is making a mess out of a fairly clean piece of code to fix a poor design decision made long ago. This issue hasn't reared it's ugly head in quite some time so I'm not sure how big of a deal that it really is. > > > Anyway, along these lines: there are still some files in our own demos > directory, in both kicad proper and the lib repo, that have this > problem. I was going to fix it myself but didn't have time to. Someone > probably should do that before the release. Which demo are you talking about? I just opened every board file in the kicad demo folder and they all opened without issue. > >> >>> >>> Would you accept a patch to PCB_PARSER that resolves this issue? It >>> would be a pity if the upcoming stable version wouldn't be able to read >>> the files generated by the previous stable version... >> >> As long as the patch was sane. I would not be willing make a huge mess >> out of PCB_PARSER for this one issue when the alternate solution is >> fairly simple. >> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tom >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > -- > 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
