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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/14/2014 10:24 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I heartily agree with this.  I've been trying to show some Kicad users
> how to use new features in Kicad, and environment variables is turning
> out to be a real turn-off for many of them.

That's a rather sad statement.  Before the advent of the GUI (I know I 
am showing my age), even the secretary (before they were called personal 
assistants) at my first job knew how to set environment variables to get 
DOS to print to a specific printer without the assistance of tech 
support or the engineering department.  Apparently now, folks who are 
"technically competent" enough to lay out a PCB cannot be bothered with 
learning how to set up their OS works so that they can configure it 
properly.  I confess myself disappointed. :(

Wayne

> Is there someplace that Mac kiway is being discussed?
>
> Adam Wolf
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Marco,
>
>
>     http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-stable-committers/kicad/kiway/view/head:/include/project.h#L169
>
>     This is a place to put variables, we could easily migrate variables
>     from the environment
>     into here, a project specific place, with the environment being a
>     fall back search.
>
>     I actually think it would be easiest to provide the editing from the
>     wxPython top level
>     GUI.  This would be easier for users than setting variables in the
>     environment, or so I'm
>     told.
>
>
>     And I don't see a reason why we can't put them in the *.pro file as
>     part of this
>     re-organization and introduction of class PROJECT.
>
>
>     Dick
>
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