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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad we could lower your blood pressure a little. :)

On 9/5/2014 6:18 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> Amazing, excellent work folks.  I was getting a little blood pressure
> spike with these little droppings all over my home directory...
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> On Sep 5, 2014 4:59 PM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I just committed Moses' configuration file relocation patch in r5114.
> 
>     On Linux the configuration files are now located in $HOME/.config/kicad
>     per the FreeDesktop.org specification.  To preserve you current
>     settings, you can move the kicad configuration files for your $HOME
>     folder to the new location.  You must drop the leading . from the file
>     name.  You must also move the fp-lib-table file.  You will have to make
>     copies of these files if you plan on using any version of kicad prior to
>     r5114.
> 
>     Sorry windows users but you will have to reconfigure KiCad.  There was
>     no easy way to extract the registry keys into configuration files.  The
>     configuration files on Windows will be saved in the same folder as
>     fp-lib-table which is %APPDATA%\kicad.  You may want to clean the kicad
>     cruft from the registry if your not going to use any versions of kicad
>     prior to r5114.
> 
>     There should be no change for OSX users.
> 
>     Can someone please apply the attached patch to the library install in
>     the github repo so the fp-lib-table file gets installed in the correct
>     path by anyone using the kicad-install.sh script.
> 
>     Thank you Moses for contributing to KiCad.
> 
>     Sorry about the inconvenience but this change fixes the $HOME folder
>     configuration file pollution on Linux and removing the configuration
>     from the Windows registry which both users and developers have been
>     pushing for.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
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