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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure.  I can even have just a message saying "If you are upgrading
KiCad, please read the README" with a little arrow to the README file.

Next--what do I instruct our users to do?

Adam
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:45 PM Seth Hillbrand
<seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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