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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/7/2018 11:26 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Am 2018-11-07 09:40, schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to get a feel for what is left before we can release 5.0.2.
>> I'm hoping we can get this out soon because I would like to announce the
>> string freeze for 5.1 by Thanksgiving.  I noticed there are a few
>> outstanding critical bugs (although I believe one of them has already
>> been resolved) that need addressed.  I would like to move forward on
>> this in the next week or two.  Please let me know if this isn't feasible.
> 
> Hi Wayne-
> 
> I can fix the ratsnest this week.  The eagle import crash is, I think,
> addressed already by the packaging.
> 
> The KDE error [1] is a bit less tractable.  It is a bad interaction
> between our data and Klipper (the KDE clipboard manager) and possibly
> the secondary plasma clipboard.  A real fix here may be simple and it is
> eluding me or we may need to selectively disable the clipboard for KDE
> window managers. I should know more this weekend.
> 
> -S
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1800648

Hey Seth,

Any luck trying to fix the ratsnest issue?  I am less concerned about
the KDE clipboard issue.  Trying to get kicad to work well on every
linux window manager is a never ending task.  I'm not saying we
shouldn't fix it if we have time but at some point we have to cut our
losses.  Linux users can always log out and run a gnome desktop if they
need to use kicad until we find time to get it fixed.

Cheers,

Wayne