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the two a) and b) points are a big issue I think and this configuration 
is normally not present in other installer programs on windows...

In windows a common User Folder is called common doc folder;
the var pointing to C:\Users\Public is %PUBLIC% in recent Windows
https://installmate.com/support/im9/kb/kb50038.htm#commondoc
Then placing the libraries models/modules in i.e. C:\Users\Public\kicad 
folder, will let All Users have access read/write to these folders

I'm not enough familiar in Unix, but I think it would be possible to 
just change folder permission during the installation, so the folder 
'\usr\share\kicad' could remain the default folder, but it will become 
writable by normal users... similar option for osx...
Maurice

On 11/8/2017 2:15 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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