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[Simon Turner <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All

Hope I'm not upsetting the apple cart but thought I give a view on how a 
dumb user see's the latest releases.

Thanks to all of your help I'm not able to regularly build the latest 
cutting edge releases. I have noted a few things with this version.

Firstly trying to create a project is impossible, kicad just crashes 
either on creating or opening, I have to create it with the old "stable" 
release.

Secondly in eeschema I used to be able to place parts by just typing the 
parts name like "r" for a resistor, now this produces a results box with 
the whole library in it so i have to go and find it manually, I used to 
just click on the place part icon, click on the page, type "r" and hit 
enter and bingo, same applies for "c" ect and capapol brings up a search 
result with just one result so why not place it anyway.

Thirdly, I can't progress beyond the schematic capture! I have no idea 
how the new pcb libraries work and can't even assign pcb footprints to 
the schematic, I have tried reading the manual but being a "dumb user" 
it makes no sense at all and seems to explain principles rather than 
what to do about it. I search for the file that should hold the path to 
the libraries brings up so many files I have no idea which one to use. I 
realize this is a pre-release version but if it goes out like this many 
won't be able to use it.... I cannot work out how to point the program 
at the libraries location.

I hope that is of some help to you in understanding how the current 
release looks from a users point of view.

Kind regards
Simon