Re: [Kicad-developers] Modeless dialog action buttons

2017-12-28 Thread Jeff Young
Hi Fabrizio, Yes, the dialog pictured is the one I meant. On my machine it has “Cancel” instead of “Close”. (Or perhaps your screen shot was taken after fixing it?) As for the other buttons, they should definitely be verbs, not nouns. (Generate Drill File, etc.) Cheers, Jeff. > On 28 Dec 2

Re: [Kicad-developers] Modeless dialog action buttons

2017-12-28 Thread Fabrizio Tappero
Hi, Jeff, when you say "Drill File Generation"... what do you mean? talking about button labels (see below) I have an issue with "Drill File" as well as "Map File" and "Report File". I feel they should be changed into "Generate Drill File" and "Generate Map File", etc. Am I wrong? Suggestions?

Re: [Kicad-developers] Modeless dialog action buttons

2017-12-23 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
… same for the new remap dialog in eeschema. Regards, Bernhard > On 23. Dec 2017, at 17:28, Andy Peters wrote: > > >> On Dec 23, 2017, at 9:17 AM, Jeff Young wrote: >> >> Found another one: Drill Files Generation. > > In pcbnew, the netlist import dialog has a “cancel” button, which is usef

Re: [Kicad-developers] Modeless dialog action buttons

2017-12-23 Thread Andy Peters
> On Dec 23, 2017, at 9:17 AM, Jeff Young wrote: > > Found another one: Drill Files Generation. In pcbnew, the netlist import dialog has a “cancel” button, which is useful for when you decide you don’t want to do the import, but once the import has completed, that button should change to “clo

Re: [Kicad-developers] Modeless dialog action buttons

2017-12-23 Thread Jeff Young
Found another one: Drill Files Generation. > On 21 Dec 2017, at 14:33, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > They should be "Close". I'll will try to get them fixed soon. > > On 12/21/2017 8:00 AM, Jeff Young wrote: >> There are several modeless dialogs in pcbnew (for instance, Exchange >> Footprint and

Re: [Kicad-developers] Modeless dialog action buttons

2017-12-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
They should be "Close". I'll will try to get them fixed soon. On 12/21/2017 8:00 AM, Jeff Young wrote: > There are several modeless dialogs in pcbnew (for instance, Exchange > Footprint and Plot) which have action buttons and a “Cancel” button. > > These shouldn’t be called “Cancel” as they don

[Kicad-developers] Modeless dialog action buttons

2017-12-21 Thread Jeff Young
There are several modeless dialogs in pcbnew (for instance, Exchange Footprint and Plot) which have action buttons and a “Cancel” button. These shouldn’t be called “Cancel” as they don’t cancel the action. They should be either “Done” or “Close”. Comments? (Resending to fix bogus thread link.