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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 20/04/2016 14.16 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Mario,
>
> That's not going to happen.  I specifically designed the environment
> variable behavior for development purposes.  That's why the environment
> variables defined externally to kicad take precedence.  This allows me
> to keep my test libraries separate from my normal working libraries.
> This allows me to do:
>
> export KISYSMOD=/path/to/test/footprint/libraries
> pcbnew
>
> which is really useful for debugging and testing.  Entries in the
> environment variable configuration table in kicad are highlighted in
> grey to inform the user that a given variable was defined externally.

So does it show the external env var or the config one? If it shows the
external one, that is what Mario expects.

> We even have a help dialog that explains this which if I am not mistaken
> is the *only* help button provided by any dialog in kicad.  On clean
> installs this should not be an issue because it's highly unlikely that
> users will have any of environment variable defined that are used by
kicad.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 4/20/2016 4:04 AM, 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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