Naming Inconsistency: Edit Symbol Library Associations

[Karl Zeilhofer]

The Dialog "Edit Symbol Library Associations" should be named by a noun and not by an action.

My suggestion: "Editor for Symbol Library Associations" or "Symbol Library Associations Editor"

Im using the current nightly.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Almost all dialogs edit something, so both "Edit" and "Editor" are somewhat redundant. I'd suggest shortening it to "Symbol Library Associations".

[Karl Zeilhofer (zeilhofer)]

Yes, I agree.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

The trouble is that I keep parsing it as "Symbol-library associations", like it's some sort of rescue operation or something, rather than "Symbol library-associations".

What's the difference between this dialog and the Remap Symbols... dialog? (I assume the later is some sort of rescue operation as it's always greyed out for me.)

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

FWIW, I didn't notice that we were in the Tools menu. Verb menu items are OK there (although I still think this menu label needs help).

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

I think we can solve the parsing problem by re-grouping the menu items:

Symbol Library Editor...
Rescue Symbols...
Remap Symbols... (not sure where this one goes...)
-------------
Edit Symbol Fields...
Edit Symbol Library References...
-------------
Annotate Schematic...
Generate Netlist File...
Generate Bill of Materials...

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

On 04/20/2018 08:05 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> I think we can solve the parsing problem by re-grouping the menu items:
>
> Symbol Library Editor...
> Rescue Symbols...
> Remap Symbols... (not sure where this one goes...)
> -------------
> Edit Symbol Fields...
> Edit Symbol Library References...
> -------------
> Annotate Schematic...
> Generate Netlist File...
> Generate Bill of Materials...
>

I'm fine with this.