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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose the actual text of what to do maybe something in the V4->V5
page that's being drafted.  If not, we should draft something up on
the list here.

Adam
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:48 PM Adam Wolf
<adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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