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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Welcome to the mailing list. I'm another user of KiCad in my free time. :)

I really like the idea of having an easy access to shared content on the
Internet from KiCad directly. I think it could be made to be much more
intuituive than doing a web search manually.

I however am not sure about the usefulness of being able to access
libraries and templates without going through a project first, as you can't
use them without one.

Carl

On Sunday, April 14, 2013, Andreas Butti wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> I'm new to the KiCad mailing list. I'm a computer scientists, in my free
> time I sometimes use KiCad.
>
> I had some Ideas to improve the project tree, and if the community thinks
> they are useful I may can implement them.
>
> What I would change the tree to the following format:
>
> - Root: Workspace (instead of Project)
>     - Projects
>         - Project A
>         - Project B
>         - Project C
>     - Templates
>         -MyTemplate A
>         -MyTemplate B
>     - Libraries
>         - AVRs
>         - RGB LED PLCC6
>
> etc.
>
> If you now clicks to "Projects" you get on the right side the options to
> - Create a new Project
> - Create a new Project from Template
>
> If you click to "Template" you get the options
> - Create a new template
> - Search for templates [INPUT FIELD]
> - [List with newest online templates, can be downloaded]
>
> If you click to "Libraries"you get the options:
> - Create a new library
> - Search for libraries [INPU TFIELD]
> - [List with newest online libraries, can be downloaded]
>
> if you click to a Project you get the start screen you now have:
> - On top the buttons to start Eeschema, CvPcb etc.
> - Below is not the Log output, there is
>     - A Field for a Project Description (I think text, maybe RTF)
>     - A list to assign Libraries to the project. The Libraries are managed
> in the workspace
>
>
> And now the technical background:
> Add workspace, new views on the right etc. is not much to do. It means we
> need additional to the project also a workspace file.
>
> For downloading Libs or Template we have to opinions:
> - Define a standard, everybody who wants to provide libraries has to
> implement this interface (e.g. REST)
> - Allow Plug ins
>
> I would do a mix of both, we should define a standard with REST, but  we
> should implement the client in a scripting language. We can e.g. use python
> or javascript. (e.g. https://developers.google.com/**v8/embed<https://developers.google.com/v8/embed>
> )
>
> Then its easy to add 3rd party sites, e.g. if somebody wants to share his
> libraries or templates on github it only needs a github client javascript
> and we can access such libraries from main KiCad screen.
>
> What do you think about?
>
> Andreas
>
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