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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/2/2014 12:50 PM, Moses McKnight wrote:
> On 09/02/2014 11:36 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> On 8/31/2014 8:35 PM, Moses McKnight wrote:
>>> On 08/31/2014 11:07 AM, jp charras wrote:
>>>> Le 31/08/2014 13:59, Moses McKnight a écrit :
> <snip>
>>>>> As I mentioned, I didn't change how it is done in Windows, so the
>>>>> configs are still in the registry there.  If desired it would be
>>>>> trivial
>>>>> to put them in config files in %APPADATA%\kicad as well.  wxConfig by
>>>>> default uses the registry in Windows, but that can be changed easily.
>>>>
>>>> I tested it on Linux and On Windows.
>>>> It works fine.
>>>>
>>>> If nobody complains, I'll commit you patch soon.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Do you think it would be good to make it automatically move the old
>>> files to the new location, or just inform the users of the need to do
>>> that if they don't want to re-enter their settings?  The file names in
>>> ~/.config/kicad will not have the dot in front, so instead of
>>> ".eeschema" it will be simply "eeschema".  If it would be better to
>>> still have them be dot files, I can change that.  This would make it so
>>> the old config files could simply be moved and not have to be re-named -
>>> if it is done manually.
>>>
>>> Also, should the global fp-lib-table be moved as well?  I did not look
>>> at that one.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Moses
>>>
>>
>> Moses,
>>
>> I don't think it's necessary to copy the old files.  Most of the
>> configuration set up is fairly trivial.  If you've been using KiCad for
>> any length of time, there probably is a lot of cruft in the config files
>> that is no longer used.  If we are going to make this change, I
>> recommend moving fp-lib-table there as well.  Splitting up the KiCad
>> configuration files in multiple places will only confuse users.  I also
>> recommend migrating windows over to config files instead of using the
>> registry.  The global fp-lib-table file is alread in the %APPDATA%/kicad
>> folder on windows.  I'm sure there will be some grumbling but it's much
>> easier for developers have someone send a config file than digging
>> around the windows registry.
>>
>> Wayne
> 
> Ok, I can add that to my patch and re-send it if you want me to.  I
> haven't looked into what it would take to move the fp-lib-table, but I
> should be able to move the windows config to %APPDATA%/kicad in a few
> minutes of work.
> 
> Oh, on another subject, this list is one of the few I'm on (out of
> dozens) that does not send replies back to the list but send to the
> poster instead.  That is annoying because for this list I have to be
> careful to hit the right button or add kicad-developers to the
> recipients.  Is there a way to make the default reply-to be the list?
> 
> Thanks,
> Moses
> 

I generally get mine from the mailing list.  Some mail clients will
reply to the list and the person who posted the message if the person
replying isn't careful.  I don't know if there is a configuration issue
in play or not.