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Message #19015
Re: [PATCH] Rescue UX fixes
Le 27/06/2015 17:59, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Attached is a patch to fix a few annoyances people have been having with
> project_rescue. I know it's not a "true" bug fix in that nothing is
> crashing or eating data, but the whole idea of project_rescue is to be
> easy for newbies who don't understand why their old projects don't load
> under the new release, and I'd like to get this fixed up and ready to go
> before the release...
>
> - Slightly change the info text in the dialog. Add a definition of
> exactly what it means to "rescue" a component, and add a line break
> that makes it more readable.
>
> - Reload the project libraries when a project is opened, even if kicad
> is already running and the same project is open. I've heard confusion
> a couple times now about the fact that if you cancel rescue, save and
> reopen, it shows up again (because even though eeschema writes out the
> -cache.lib, it's not reloaded).
>
> - Set the Modified flag on cancel, because a change has indeed been
> made (choosing not to rescue is equivalent to updating the
> components). "Save" seems to be the first place people go after
> pressing cancel, and they're confused that it's greyed out.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Chris
Committed. Thanks.
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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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