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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
in windows if the ENV var is defined by the system (i.e. SETX KISYS3DMOD 
"local_path"), the previous behavior was to respect the system defined 
var, and the kicad internal var was 'greyed' in Preferences, Path 
Configuration

Maurice

On 20/04/2016 10.04, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> Hi Cirilo,
>
> Thinking as a regular user perspective, I vote for "WYSIWYG", i.e: the one defined in the GUI.
> Users will get puzzled if something that they don't see is change the variable path.
>
> Mario
> ________________________________________
> From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Cirilo Bernardo [cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 April 2016 01:19
> To: KiCad Developers
> Subject: [Kicad-developers] 3D filename resolution
>
> Hi folks,
>
>   I'm cleaning up the new 3D filename resolution code, removing some
> redundant code and fixing corner-case bugs which break with legacy
> behavior. I'd just like some input on one item: if a ENV_VAR path has
> been defined via "Preferences->Configure Paths" and that ENV_VAR
> already exists on the system, which one has preference? For most
> UNIX applications the behavior is to use the ENV_VAR defined within
> the shell rather than the locally defined values.
>
> - Cirilo
>
>
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