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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jean-Paul, I think this is a perfect example :)

I said there is already a README in the DMG, but I do not believe many
people actually read it. :)

Adam
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:20 PM Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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