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Re: Fwd: Re: Config file relocation

 

On 9/2/2014 8:01 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> 
> On 09/02/2014 06:16 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> My Thunderbird mail client has two buttons - Reply and Reply List
> 
> I used Reply List for this reply
> 
> Bob G
> 

Seems to be working OK.  I just received the reply from the mailing list.




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