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

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
>

That's not what I want to say. I think the table presented in your dialog
and the table in this dialog
<https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/pngxHBG1VmMoN.png> should
have the same layout. That means maybe simplifying the latter and/or adding
more information in the former.


>
> 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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