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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was thinking we couldn’t get rid of the active library concept until we had the tree browser in the left-hand side of the window.  

But there are actually only three clients of the active library:
  The List All button in the Open dialog
  The Save action
  The Export Library action

New Footprint already asks for a Footprint Name.  If it also asked for a Library then the Save problem goes away.

The Open / List All button is much faster on all libraries than it used to be, and it’s a bit of a step-child to Search by Keyword and Select by Browser anyway.

So, I’m going to propose that we add a Library selection widget to New Footprint..., Export Library... and Save As... and otherwise abandon the active library concept.

New Footprint… then drops to just plain New….; Save Footprint in Open Library… to Save; and Save Footprint in New Library… to Save As….


> On 19 Feb 2018, at 10:30, Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I believe the items you're referring to are under submenus. Please see attached screenshots.
> 
> If this is not good I can have a rethink.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> On 19 February 2018 at 01:56, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I'm not sure "Library" or "Footprint" conveys much meaning to the user.
> "Select" or "Open" should proceed them similar to other file actions
> like "Save" and "Load".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 02/18/2018 06:18 PM, Michael Kavanagh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Attached is a patch to bring the Footprint Editor menu bar items in
> > alignment with the Pcbnew one.
> >
> > I have also tried to clarify the "select active library", "open
> > footprint" and various save/export options to make the menu items say
> > what they actually do, for example:
> >
> >   * I've changed the "Save Active Library As..." item to "Export
> >     Library"  because it didn't change the active library to the newly
> >     saved one, which is standard "Save As" behaviour.
> >   * "Load Footprint from Active Library" is now just "Open Footprint"
> >     since you can load any footprint from any library in the table.
> >
> > Other than that I have just moved items around and used standard hotkeys.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michael
> >
> >
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