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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Andy, thank you for the feedback. None of these sound like release stoppers
though. Please file a bug report for the first one, and the second one has
been reported already (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1850632).

-Ian

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, 23:56 Andy Peters, <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On Nov 25, 2019, at 3:24 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Does it sound like I can make this release?  While the application may
> not be perfect, I haven't heard anything that makes me think the
> packaging change is causing issues.
>
>
> I started a new project with it today. Some observations, not sure if they
> are show-stoppers or not. Again, this is on macOS Catalina.
>
> a) In the Symbol Editor, when you edit a symbol, sometimes the indication
> that the symbol is dirty doesn’t get set (the symbol name isn’t bolded and
> there’s no asterisk). Or it’ll indicate that the library is dirty and not
> the symbol. If you click on the symbol name or the library name, then it’ll
> refresh and show the correct status. And in some cases (trying to find one
> now) the “Save” option isn’t available. This is weird.
>
> b) In the Page Settings, some of the captions are cut off, and expanding
> the dialog doesn’t change that.
>
>
> Haven’t gotten to layout yet.
>
>
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:48 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> On 11/22/19 2:21 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
> wrote:
>
> If folks on 10.14 or 10.15 could test
>
> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/kicad-unified-5.1.5-rc1-10_14.dmg
> ,
> and anyone still on 10.13 or lower could test
> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/kicad-unified-5.1.5-rc2.dmg,
> that would be great.
>
>
> (On Catalina, not that I think it matters), one thing that popped up
> immediately upon opening a schematic was a message box “Illegal t
> entry found in project file symbol library.”
>
>
> This has nothing to do with your OS.  Somehow you have remapped an old
> project to use the symbol library table to look up symbol links and the
> library list in the project file did not get cleared.  There are several
> ways that this can happen.  Most of them involve manual operations like
> copying a file from another project or using version control to restore
> the project file.  The list of libraries is cleared after the dialog is
> dismissed so if you schematic doesn't have any broken symbol links,
> there is nothing to do.  This warning is there because an unexpected
> condition occurred that could cause broken symbol links when Eeschema
> attempts to repair the issue.
>
>
> “Symbol libraries defined in the project file symbol library list are no
> longer supported and will be removed. This may cause broken
> symbol library links under certain” and this sentence is not completed.
>
>
> This looks like an issue with the message dialog layout on macos.  The
> full string is shown on Linux.  Does resizing the dialog help?  If one
> of the macos devs wants to debug this, you have to add:
>
> [eeschema/libraries]
> LibName1=power
>
> to a project file then run Eeschema to show the dialog.  If the dialog
> doesn't show, you have to dig around the eeschem config file to enable it.
>
>
>
>
> The problem is that there’s no indication of what could be broken.
>
> When I looked at the design I didn’t see any missing symbols. I believe
> the design was done in a 5.0.x Kicad, based on what I see in this
> project’s kicad_pcb file.
>
> Also, oddly, in previous versions of Kicad — and this may be a Catalina
> thing, not a Kicad thing, I’ll test on my Mojave machine — the various
> application windows were all tabs under one Kicad window (the tabs could
> be detached). Now the application windows are all separate. This is a
> slight annoyance, in that the main Kicad menu doesn’t have a Window
> menu, so you can’t mouse up to the top and choose Window -> PCB (or
> whatever it would be). On a machine with more than one monitor this
> isn’t really a problem, but on a single-display machine it’s annoying.
> (Mousing down to the Dock, clicking-and-holding the Kicad icon and then
> choosing “show all windows,” or using the equivalent hot-key, would
> work.) Also you can’t do the various minimize/maximize things that are
> standard window operations on macOS.
>
>
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