Hello Wayne, In attachment you can find a good review of approx 30 icons and a global simplification of approx 30 icons. I have also corrected some menu labels.
Since there is a lot of corrected text that is very much related to English, it would be great if you could review it before submitting it. A not so fun work but I think it will make kicad a much better tool. I think it would be recommendable to avoid "a" and "the" in button and menu tooltips. So that it way easier to understand what the button or tooltip is about. The use of singular plural is also inconsistent and I tried to fix it. Please Wayne feel free to make any changes you think is important. I have also notices that several menus are a little inconstant. I will try work on it since I think the current kicad UI is very usable but it needs to be more consistent. I have tried to fixed a lot of icons so that their meaning is more immediate to understand. I have as well started a process of simplification of many redundant icons. I think it is important that we begin simplifing the kicad icon set because at the moment is really too large. Here below a detailed description of the changes. Cheers Fabrizio ### Deleted the following icons(deleted: svg, cpp and png): edit_component edit_part move_text rotate_field rotate_glabel rotate_module_cw rotate_module_ccw rotate_pin rotatehlabel many_good_icons dismiss move_track move_track_segment library2 copy_button copyblock edit_sheet icon_text pagelayout_new sch_new rescue_pcbnew schematic pagelayout_load_default gerbview_open_recent_ziparchive_files gerbview_open_recent_drill_files gerber_recent_files pagelayout_recent revert_pcbnew ### Lightly modified icons: bom autoplace_fields flip_board duplicate_module delete new_sch new_pcb new_component general_deletions reload pagelayout_load add_line add_entry add_tracks add_tracks_and_vias about array_module image noconn add_dashed_line.svg add_bus.svg scheamatic resize_sheet eeschema netlist pagelayout_load_default datasheet svg_file pagelayout_normal_view_mode pagelayout_special_view_mode unknow export import pcb_update pcbnew editor edit directory browse_files icon_gerbview_small post_drill ### created few new icons that replace few icons used inproperly (created svg, cpp, png): exchange icon drag rescue path copy new_generic recent pcbcalculator ### Corrected some label content. It is important here to be rigorus about it. Inkscape could be a good tool that can be used as reference: eescheam rightclick menu cvpcb rightclick menu pcbnew rightclick menu libedit rightclick menu icon tooltips gerber and drill file menu main kicad hotkey icon menu fixes several tooltip phrases like "Opens a new schematic" into "Open new schematic sheet" few more menues and sub menus here and there (see git log for details). Beside makes many icons more effective, this massive patch is trying to rise the quality of the kicad UI. Few examples are: write all words in a menu with capital letter. Tooltip sentence should start with capital letter. do not end a menu item is with a dot "." do not use "the" or "a" when possible for both tooltip and menu item use consistent and meaninguful text. "Set Language" is better than "Language". "Set grid origin" is better than "Set origin point for the grid" limit use of "..." (this is a debatable issue) etc.
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