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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

How soon do you think it will take you got get around to fixing this?
There is a bug in the symbol chooser that always returns the root symbol
LIB_ID rather the alias LIB_ID that needs to be addressed.  I would
rather avoided merge conflicts if I can help it.  I'm busy trying to
keep up with the current patch volume so anything to prevent extra work
is a good thing.

On 1/3/2018 3:37 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> There's some performance issue that's not just github, but related to
> the footprint parse stage I _couldn't_ background due to LOCALE_IO
> issues, which seems to run really slow on some people's systems. Some
> subtle caching bug may be involved too. Eventually I'd like to untangle
> all the LOCALE_IO stuff so parsing can be totally backgrounded but my
> day job takes up way too much for me to get that done in a timely manner
> currently.
> 
> I may improve this slightly before pushing - with the footprint section
> simply removed, the layout of the dialog is a bit suboptimal, with the
> symbol preview taking up valuable space that the info box could use. I
> might have it populate the dialog with something more close to the
> original layout when footprints are disabled.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:11:45PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> I'm OK with this patch so go ahead and push it when you get a chance.  I
>> wonder if the majority of the performance issues are due to loading
>> footprints using the github plugin.  I'm guessing if the footprints were
>> on the user's local drive that the lag caused by loading all of the
>> footprint libraries would be all that objectionable.  For version 5, the
>> default global footprint table will point to the footprint libraries
>> that get installed locally instead of the github libraries which are no
>> longer being maintained.  Thanks for addressing this issue.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 1/2/2018 9:55 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've attached a patch to make the footprint preview and selection
>>> functionality in eeschema optional, to address primarily performance
>>> concerns some users have, and also to address the handful of planned
>>> features still unimplemented. It's a runtime option, default OFF, so
>>> users can easily enable it if they like. I should have time after the
>>> release to work more on polishing it and then we can take the option
>>> back out.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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