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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am pretty concerned about this.  There is no place in the macOS
package to put instructions that users will read.  (There is a README
but I do not believe many people open it.)

Is there any way we can detect if the fp-lib-table is out of sync and
tell a user at run time?

Adam
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:54 PM Rene Pöschl <poeschlr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I know we are in feature freeze. It seems a lot of people struggle with
> the transition from kicad 4 to kicad 5. One of the things that could
> help a lot would be some way of forcing a reset of the user config
> directory contents to the default. (cold also help later on if for some
> reason the config directory got compromised.)
>
> Especially for the fp-lib-table. It is really not obvious to a lot of
> people using the official library that this one would need to be reset
> after updating from kicad 4 to kicad 5. (The files for the official
> symbol and 3d libraries are updated. The sym-lib-table is "updated" as
> it never existed before. Meaning without user intervention the footprint
> library will be out of sync with all other types of libraries.)
>
> I think a message in the installer should be the least that should be
> done. (But that one will only work where kicad has a specific
> installation tool.)
>
> A message on first run of kicad 5 might be even better (maybe the
> message stating that the default sym-lib-table has been introduced could
> hint at the fact that the fp-lib-table might need resetting as well. Or
> a message with a tick-mark "do not show again".)
>
>
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