Re: gEDA-user: Editing elements in PCB is too complicated

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:06:23PM -0500, harry eaton wrote:
> > > I don't know what "go out of one's way mean" - do you know German
> > > equivalent?
> >
> > "sich grosse Mühe geben" or perhaps "sich besonders anstrengen".
> >
> > I think it might also be worth noting that when a native German speaker
> > communicates in English it can sometimes sound rather curt or brusque
> > even though that may not be the intent.
> 
> Consider:
> 
> "gsch2pcb produces crap!"
> "PCB realign grid sucks"
> "PCB realign grid sucks squared"
> "the stupid design of the realign feature"
> "Bugzilla appears to be a shit to me"
> "Actually QCAD sucks..."
> 
> These types of statements pretty much nail the definition of "going out of
> his way" to offend, and it's not a translation issue, it is intentional;
> Karel has argued that it's the proper way to act on more than one occasion.
> 
> For example it would be far more diplomatic to say something like:
> "PCB realign grid doesn't work" or
> "PCB realign grid is extremely hard to use" or

"extremely hard to use" could cause you a heart arrest. I suggest
something like "I can't reach maximum level of nirvana when using PCB
realign grid, am I doing anything wrong?"

Seriously, human has negative emotions and positive ones. Negative
emotions are for the situation when something is wrong, and positive
emotions are for the situations when someone feels happy. According to
my opinion in doesn't make sense to pretend that human doesn't have any
negative emotions and deliberately filter them out.

If you do it, what you get is a hypocritical personality with which it's
difficult to communicate, because it always says it's happy and you
cannot tell what's happening inside, because it's filtered out.

CL<
> "PCB realign grid would work much better with snap while realigning" or
> "PCB realign grid should take numerical text offset entries instead of using
> the cursor" or
> anything else constructive.
> 
> h.
>