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[Ouabache Designworks <z3qmtr45@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are assuming that every designer uses one and only one configuration
for all their needs. I usually have several projects active at any time any
would like to customize each one.

How do we handle that?

John Eaton



On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:11 AM, ml <ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Current configuration files are placed directly in the user's home
> directory (in
> Linux, I don't know where are they on other platforms but I think it is
> similar). Every program of the KiCad package has its own file. That is OK
> but
> they should be placed in a common directory. I propose
>
> ~/.config/kicad
>
> For backward compatibility the program should look first for the files
> located
> in ~/ and if they are present and not present in the ~/.config/kicad then
> they
> should be copied. Similarly other platforms as well.
>
> David
>
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