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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Orson,

It looks great, but I have one comment. I think there should be one
template for both the table in "Review and confirm the changes to the
libraries" and the fp-lib-table presented in the parent dialog.

My 2¢.

Carl

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> As we are inevitably approaching the feature freeze, I would
> like to know your opinion about one last change to the footprint library
> wizard.
>
> We would like to make the library management as simple as possible.
> Therefore Tom has prepared an alternative set of dialog windows for the
> footprint wizard (attached to the message).
>
> There is no dialog to specify whether the libraries should be added with
> absolute/relative/based on environmental variable path. Instead it
> depends on the choice in the last dialog: global libraries use absolute
> paths, and "current project" option selects relative paths. There is no
> choice for environmental variables - the wizard is designed for
> beginners, and power users know how to take advantage of them.
>
> The plan foresees to change the file browser extension filter to handle
> all accepted file extensions simultaneously, so the user does not have
> to select appropriate plugin first. This way the plugin would be matched
> basing on the file extension (possibly verified by the file header
> contents).
>
> I am not going to give any hints on how to use the wizard. If the
> dialogs are not self-explanatory, then they are not good enough and have
> to be improved.
>
> I would like to know whether you consider the proposed changes
> advantageous and if we would like to have them in the upcoming stable
> release.
>
> Regardless of the answers, the current plan for the GAL canvases is to:
> - Add "select copper/connection net"
> - Add icons & missing entries to the context menu
> - Make the context menu translatable using the standard tools
> - Develop or adapt the hotkey editor for GAL (consistent with the legacy
> settings)
> - Clear the bug tracker
>
> Regards,
> Orso
>
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