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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Carl,

The dialog would be common for both ways. If the user chooses local
files option, then a file browser appears and then as the last step -
the summary dialog.

Regards,
Orson

On 03/09/2015 06:50 PM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> 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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