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Re: gEDA-user: "revert" vs "reload"



On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:30 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> I like doing tricks with scripts or with the text editor. Some features of 
> gschem are not even accesssible via the GUI. The revert action in the file
> to propagate the changes to the GUI. menu. However, under these circumstances
> this is not a revert in the original meaning of the term.
> 
> Proposal: Rename the menu item "revert" to the more neutral "reload". 
> This applies to both, PCB and gschem. 
> 
> Would this be appreciated? 

I tend to look at a couple of popular GNOME (/ GTK) apps as well as the
GNOME HIG as guides to how GTK applications ought to look to be
consistent on the desktop.

Picking GIMP and gedit as examples of popular, well written
applications, they both use "Revert". This is specified in the HIG:

http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/menus-standard.html.en


So my preference is that we stick with "Revert" here.


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