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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.


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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