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[jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 10/05/2012 08:15, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit :
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:26:21PM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are a few quirks with preferences in Kicad it seems.  I'm
> > running Kicad on Ubuntu 12.04 from Adam's PPA.
> >
> > 1. The first is that the preferences file for eeschema has changed
> > recently from .eeschema to .EESchema - is this intentional?
>
> Noticed that too. Also the mixed case is not 'traditional' for dot
> files.

I committed a fix.
Config files capitalization were broken by bzr rev 3544 (and not 3543 as said in my commit message).
Should now be .eeschema

> > 2. When I change the grid size it always goes back to 50 mils after
> > I restart eeschema.  Shouldn't there be a way to save that?  I think
> > it used to.
>
> Uhmm... for pcbnew it should save. Never changed eeschema grid, so
> I can't say

Pcbnew has no "normal" grid and display the grid size.
But unlike Pcbnew, in Eeschema:
- The 50 mils grid is the "normal" grid size to put components and wires.
- The Grid size is not displayed.
So the other grid sizes should be rarely used,
and it is better to start Eeschema with the "normal" grid to avoid mistakes.


> > 3. It seems to me it would make a lot more sense to put the library
> > search paths in the .eeschema preferences file than in the project
> > file.  Do people actually use different paths for library files for
> > projects on the same computer?  For my projects the search paths
>
> Yes, especially with PCB modules. So you can have a library dir with
> 8 mil tech and another one with 6 mil tech.

Yes also for me.


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS