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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why don't you like the idea of saving the schematic when you hit the save
button? That seems like a reasonable expected behavior to me at least.

(I dislike nag dialogs especially when they seem to have no purpose)

-Jon

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> CvPcb has a Save command (complete with disk icon).  Only it doesn’t do
> that.  (It simply writes the changes back to eeschema.)
>
> If it were a dialog, I’d say that’s not good.  But this is CvPcb, where
> you could easily spend an hour making associations (hitting save every few
> minutes), only to have your machine and/or Kicad go down with all your
> changes.  That’s borderline horrific.
>
> I don’t like the idea of blind-saving the eeschema document, but I think
> that would be better than what we have now.
>
> Another idea would be to trigger an auto-save for each CvPcb save.  It’s
> not ideal because the user may think that there aren’t any changes in their
> eeschema file and therefore ignore the auto-save warning when restarting.
>
> Yet another idea would be to foist the decision on the user with a “Save
> your schematic?” dialog every time you save in CvPcb.  That’s pretty hard
> to love, but with Orson’s new KIDIALOG we could at least have a “don’t ask
> me again” checkbox.  Maybe that’s not so bad….
>
> Thoughts?
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