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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> About a month ago I had a discussion with Wayne with regards to the
> patch that is attached. I have updated the patch so that it applies to
> the current testing branch.
>
> To refresh, this patch adds the ability to have a custom default
> setting for component field names. Thus Field1 could instead be
> Manufacturer, or any other chosen default which saves the user from
> having to input this information for every component they create.
> Currently the patch puts these defaults in the .pro project file. As
> Wayne pointed out there are two problems here:
>
> (1) The .pro project file is probably not the best place to store
> these default names.
> (2) The defaults are currently edited from the eeschema settings
> dialog, and therefore are in the wrong place for .pro project file
> settings anyway.
>
> There are a couple of formatting issues with the code and the GUI
> rules are not adhered to in this patch, so that needs cleaning up for
> a start, but I wanted to get people's opinion on where these default
> names should be stored.
>
> It would seem sane to put them in the eeschema options, this would
> mean that the settings could be left in the current GUI placement.
>
> If everyone is in agreement, or abstains then I'll tidy up the GUI
> implementation and change the patch so that the options get saved
> along with the eeschema options. I'll also tidy up the code
> formatting.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>   

I would like to fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/581153

Will that screw up your patch?

Brian please  let us know if this revised patch is in the near term.  If
not, I will do the bug fix soon.

Thanks,

Dick