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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I definitely can see what you're saying Wayne, and I have absolutely no
problem setting them myself, but the actual feedback seemed to be
completely reasonable:

"So now, outside of the project preferences and the program preferences, we
have another place to set settings?"

(I do remember having my fair share of problems when multiple programs
modified AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS thinking they knew best...)

Adam Wolf
Wayne and Layne, LLC


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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