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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Apple OSX HIG for a long time was marching towards the no bitmaps in
menus philosophy.  It appears that they are now changing course if I'm
reading this correctly:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/MenuIconsSymbols.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-CH27-SW1

Go figure?  To answer your question, the older OSX HIG recommended not
using images in menus so that is why they are disabled on OSX.  I don't
use OSX so I don't have a preference.  If this is something that the
majority of OSX users would prefer, I'm fine with enabling them by
default again.  Hopefully this is not a back and forth thing where in
another 3 years it will be taboo to have images in menus again.


On 1/22/2015 2:40 PM, Collin Anderson wrote:
> Menu icons:
> So, maybe I missed something and someone resolved the issue, but I just
> built KiCad with the USE_MENU_ICONS turned on and it works flawlessly
> and looks great.  I don't understand why it is off for OS X, I could not
> find any issue and indeed, the menu icons really improve everything and
> make things feel a lot more user-friendly and intuitive.
> 
> Did someone fix whatever was wrong? Or was it broken, then something
> changed (perhaps due to wx 3.0.2.0 vs. 3.0.1.1?) Or maybe I simply
> didn't notice the problem?  They sure seem fine to me: 
> 
> http://i.imgur.com/LcX6BsV.jpg
> 
> http://i.imgur.com/HcpwZim.jpg
> 
> http://i.imgur.com/vVzljfg.jpg
> 
> 
> Boost:  
> All but one of the patches that get applied to boost are now part of the
> official 1.57 release, to the point that you can attempt to apply them
> and patch will show it as already applied, meaning its *exactly* the same.  
> 
> But one patch, patches/boost_minkowski.patch (which sounds more like a
> Lorentz transformation in flat space time to me....sorry, bad physics
> pun =P), which comments out two lines in one of the covolve_two_polygons
> functions, still correctly patches boost 1.57.  But, using
> KICAD_SKIP_BOOST and ditching all that entirely builds what appears to
> be a perfectly fine .app, but I worry something subtle gets broken and I
> just don't know what to look for. I haven't been able to figure out what
> exactly the patch is/was needed for or what issues there might be.   
> 
> My question is, what's the deail? :)   Do we need to patch boost at all
> now? Why is boost_minkowski needed, or was it needed, but no more? Or
> maybe it was done years ago by someone else and no one is quite sure? :)
> 
> It is still valuable to build boost as the versions installed by package
> managers are generally unsuitable for multi-architecture, á la
> USE_OXS_DEPS_BUILDER, so if the patch is not needed, it is worth
> repurposing the boost cmake module under that flag at least when making
> distribution builds.
> 
> Finally, I have finished a more complete and polished homebrew tap for
> KiCad, along with a kicad-library formula that allows library management
> via homebrew, but is interoperable with KiCad from any source -
> official, unofficial, custom built, homebrewed - without issue.  It
> keeps it in the Cellar and symlinks it into Application Support, and it
> would seem symlinking works without issue, so the one OS X user talking
> about storing things on a thumbdrive - well, its a bit of a hack but you
> can.  Copy the kicad application support folder to the thumb drive, then
> replace the one in ~/Library with a symlink to it, and you should be
> good to go :).  
> 
> Anyway, I apologize and won't be tooting my own horn again since my
> homebrew tap is not really helpful to the project.  I do find it helpful
> in my own workflow though, as it lets updating the binary to the latest
> revision of kicad:product (but isolated from one's own modifications
> stored elsewhere) be done with a single command from shell.  I mostly
> made it for myself, so I will not be butthurt if no one else finds it
> helpful or anything.  Just wanted to mention it one last time as it's
> now in a 'finished' state: https://github.com/metacollin/homebrew-kicad
> 
> -- 
> "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
> 
> 
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