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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

We’ve had some users be quite vocal about it being hard to update footprints from the library (and trying to use cvpcb to do so)[1].  While you can do this through the 4th option on the Exchange Footprints dialog, it’s pretty hidden.

Lumping together Exchange and Update is also confusing, whether in the selected footprint case or in the global case.

I’d like to propose the following changes (I’m happy to implement them):

1) Add Edit > Update All Footprints.  This would open the Exchange Footprints dialog with all the update options and exchange information removed.

2) Add Context Menu > Update Footprints (just under Exchange Footprints).  This would open the Exchange Footprints dialog with all the exchange information removed.

3) Remove the fourth option (global update) from the Exchange Footprints dialog.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Jeff.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1466857