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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

I think you're right that a deeper understanding of how people are using
and managing the libraries is required.

However, there still seems to be one of two options if KiCad installs libs
into a location where users cannot write:

a) Users are not able to update the libraries or otherwise edit them
b) Users have to duplicate the library data to somewhere they *do* have
access and then reassociate all the library tables

I think there is scope for improvement here. I'm not confident enough to
say *what* that improvement should be.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> What is the purpose of this change?  In what way will it improve the
> user experience?  Before we ask the package devs to do a lot of work, we
> might want to dig deeper into the library management issue.  I fail to
> see how installing and likely duplicating the entire KiCad library in
> the user's home folder solves any of the underlying library management
> issues in KiCad other than having write access to modify the installed
> libraries which has its own set of issues.  In some respects this has
> the potential to complicate things even further.  I suspect the real
> issue is out library editing and management tools.  I suggest we wait
> until Orson pushes the symbol library editor to see if this improves the
> library management situation.  Given what I know about it I suspect that
> it will improve things significant on the library management side of
> things.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 11/8/2017 2:02 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> > To the package maintainers:
> >
> > For v5 release, can the default library install path be set to a user
> > directory rather than program directory that may require administrator
> > rights?
> >
> > e.g. instead of
> >
> > C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\...
> > or
> > /usr/share/kicad/...
> >
> > something like;
> >
> > C:\Users\Oliver\KiCad\...
> >
> > /home/Oliver/KiCad
> >
> > (Not necessarily those paths but something like that).
> >
> > A lot of users are reporting issues with being able to download or
> > modify library files, due to user privileges.
> >
> > How attainable is such a change before v5 release?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Oliver
> >
> >
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