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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

I'm not opposed to this patch.  I actually prefer the footprint viewer
over the footprint search dialog for two reasons.  One, the footprint
viewer uses lazy loading (it doesn't actually read the footprint files
until you select a library) so there is no lag showing the viewer due to
loading all of the footprints in every library as is the case with the
search dialog.  Two, you can actually view the footprint to make sure
that is really what you want.  That being said, I'm sure not everyone
shares my enthusiasm for the footprint viewer so a better solution may
be to add a separate button to launch the footprint viewer and leave the
footprint search dialog in place for users who prefer using that
instead.  I promise you if we remove the footprint search dialog,
someone will file a bug report about it shortly there after.

Wayne

On 6/14/2015 4:30 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> This patch enables use of the new (kiface) footprint selector in the 
> "Exchange Footprints" dialog.
> 
> As suggested in this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1464821
> 
> I'll look into making this change in the module editor as well, but that 
> will require more work.
> 
> --
> Chris
> 
> 
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