On 05/09/2012 10:26 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: > Hi, > > There are a few quirks with preferences in Kicad it seems. I'm running > Kicad on Ubuntu 12.04 from Adam's PPA. > > 1. The first is that the preferences file for eeschema has changed > recently from .eeschema to .EESchema - is this intentional?
No, I would refer to that as a PITA, and it should have been fixed yesterday. > > 2. When I change the grid size it always goes back to 50 mils after I > restart eeschema. Shouldn't there be a way to save that? I think it > used to. > > 3. It seems to me it would make a lot more sense to put the library > search paths in the .eeschema preferences file than in the project file. > Do people actually use different paths for library files for projects > on the same computer? For my projects the search paths will be the same > for all projects on one computer, and maybe different on another > computer. When sharing projects with other developers we are having to > change the search path every time we update from each other. Library search paths are on their death bed. You should not have to search for a library after you know where it is. New designs do away with this concept, and so if anyone steps up to fix the old paradigm, it is only temporary. > > Is there a way to add another system wide library and module search path? > > 4. The "Save Preferences" on the Preferences menu seems to do nothing? > > Thanks, > Moses > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
