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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kristoffer,

> On 13 Jul 2018, at 11:18, kristoffer ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey! Nice job!
> 
> I am not really sure what is the difference everywhere but i will give
> my opinion on what i noticed :)
> 
> 
> Good:
>   - Finally i can read the status text on the bottom thank you!
>   - The BOM plugin menu is much nicer
>   - Text and graphics view in pcbnew, very nice
> 
> Bad:
>   - Crashes on trying to edit outlines in pcbnew.

What platform are you on?

>   - Its much harder to change the footprints of components in eeschema
> now, also i miss the open datasheet button etc. 

Right-click the footprint cell or datasheet cell to get the footprint picker or open datasheet.   (These need to be made more discoverable, but I don’t have any good ideas how yet.)

>   - I dont really like the design choice of having a list above all  
> the buttons, makes for awkward scrolling in the cases where i have many
> deifned fields

The original actually had it inverted, but it felt better with the more-often-edited stuff on top.  In any case, it’s easy enough to change.

Cheers,
Jeff.

> 
> Thanks for your efforts!
> 
> - Kristoffer
> 
> On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 22:19 -0600, Jeff Young wrote:
>> Thanks to some great help from Nick, I believe my 6.0 (aka 5.1) tree
>> should compile cleanly on other platforms if any of you want to try
>> it out.
>> 
>> https://git.launchpad.net/~jeyjey/kicad/?h=6.0 <https://git.launchpad
>> .net/~jeyjey/kicad/?h=6.0>
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
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