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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

A bug related to some recent changes is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1769143

It sounds simple, but I don't know if it is.

2018-05-19 9:24 GMT+02:00 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>:

> What about this bug for MacOS that makes it too frustrating to use
> eeschema?
>
> Basically, I cannot navigate by zooming around in eeschema because the
> mouse scroll triggers on fine steps of the scroll wheel instead of the
> larger ratchet steps, it's not just that this is a granularity issue it's a
> consistency of navigation issue because when the scroll wheel springs back
> to the ratchet position of the original zoom, the actual zoom level is
> different and I have to play with the scroll wheel until the zoom level
> looks OK. Coupled with a HiDPI display which slows down Eeschema and GOOD
> BYE KiCAD on MacOS, it's too frustrating.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1753054
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>> On 05/18/2018 11:53 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>> > On 18/05/18 16:44, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> >> If any of our doc and library devs are on this mailing list, please
>> >> forward this information so we aren't making major changes to the docs
>> >> and libraries at the last minute.
>> >>
>> >
>> > We have one important pull request open that i will fix up my self
>> > tomorrow if the contributor does not fix the remaining issues him self.
>> > (Removing duplicate power pins from symbols as this can be quite
>> > dangerous if the user connects them multiple times.)
>> >
>> > After this is merged i will tag the library with "5.0.0-rc2" (Tomorrow
>> > evening)
>> >
>> > After this tag is set we will no longer allow renaming of libs until v6
>> > development. (Adding new libs will still be allowed.)
>>
>> I'm OK with this.
>>
>> >
>> > I will also create a kicad 4 compatibility backport for this lib. (The
>> > intention is to allow users to use the new library structure for new
>> > projects even if they can not update to a nightly build. This should
>> > reduce their work when they then switch over to kicad 5)
>> >
>> > This backport will contain a reduced number of footprints as footprints
>> > with custom or roundrect pads are not supported by kicad 4. I will also
>> > backport the symbol libs. The 3d lib does not need any work in this
>> > regard but i will still ad a separate release tag to make it easier for
>> > users. Not sure if i will make a backport of the templates.
>> > Creating this backport will take some time but i hope to have it done
>> > one week after the rc2 tag is set.
>>
>> Awesome!  I'm sure our v4 users will appreciate this.
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Regarding the issue about footprint connection you reported in [1]:
>> > All symbols that have a valid symbol in the footprint lib are now
>> > correctly connected. Sadly a lot of symbols still need footprints to be
>> > generated. (Symbols where in the lib that never had a valid footprint)
>> > Some of this will be fixed after the rc2 release. This will not impact
>> > the library structure so i assume we can include these changes in the
>> > final v5 release. (It will simply add more footprints.)
>>
>> That fine by me.  If we are going add new symbol libraries during v5, I
>> don't see any reason not to add new footprints and footprint libraries.
>> We should try to avoid wholesale renaming and/or moving of libraries and
>> their contents to avoid headaches for users.  If we have any major
>> library reorganizations, we can always create a v5 branch as we do for
>> the KiCad source.
>>
>> Thank you for all of your hard work on the libraries.  They really have
>> come a long way since v4 was released.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> >
>> > [1]: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-symbols/issues/520
>> >
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