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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,
It should be easy to add a README file in the dmg package. I have seen quite a few apps that have a README file you can open before moving the main app to the Applications folder.

Just my $0.02,
Jean-Paul
N1JPL

> On Jun 21, 2018, at 10:52 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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