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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

I think there’s a compromise in here somewhere, but I think you might have missed my main point which is that I don’t like conflating Change and Update.  They are not related in the user’s mind (even if the code is somewhat similar).

Most of your comments relate to Change.  I wasn’t actually suggesting any changes there (other than removing the 4th global update option).

The two Update commands I suggested are additions.  We’d still have the Change stuff (and I like your empty-selection addition).

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 7 Jan 2018, at 21:50, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> While I agree that the change footprint dialog is not easy to discover
> and some what confusing, I think your proposal is too restrictive.  I
> have an alternate proposal:
> 
> Leave the change footprint dialog as is.
> 
> When opening the change footprint dialog from the footprint context
> menu, keep the current behavior by preloading the reference and value of
> the selected footprint and making the reference and value controls read
> only.  In other words, no change.
> 
> Add an Edit->Change Footprint menu entry and a Change Footprint(s)
> context menu entry when no object is under the cursor and open the
> dialog with the reference and value controls empty and enabled according
> to the update type radio button selected.  This way the user could type
> a reference to replace a single footprint, a value to replace all
> footprints by value, or nothing when replacing all footprints.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> When opening the change dialog from the a
> On 01/06/2018 03:08 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> 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
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