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Re: Requesting feedback regarding "Update Footprints" menu item

 

I was mostly looking for feedback on how much people hated wide context menus.

But someone else suggested just making the dialog title include “from library”, which sounded like a good idea… 

… except that it already does.  At that point I figured “good enough”.  ;)

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 2 May 2018, at 13:00, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> I'm not sure what feedback you are looking for.  If I'm reading the
> forum post correctly, it appears the user was confused about the
> difference between "update footprint from library" and "change
> footprint".  This seems clear to me but then again, I'm not new to board
> layout software so maybe this is just a rookie mistake.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 5/1/2018 5:14 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> See https://forum.kicad.info/t/issue-updating-footprint-in-v5/10536/5.
>> 
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