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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam, I've often seen applications use the background image of the DMG to
convey important information that they want the user to see during
installation.  ​

-S​


Am Do., 21. Juni 2018 um 19:52 Uhr schrieb 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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