Chris, I'm not opposed to this patch. I actually prefer the footprint viewer over the footprint search dialog for two reasons. One, the footprint viewer uses lazy loading (it doesn't actually read the footprint files until you select a library) so there is no lag showing the viewer due to loading all of the footprints in every library as is the case with the search dialog. Two, you can actually view the footprint to make sure that is really what you want. That being said, I'm sure not everyone shares my enthusiasm for the footprint viewer so a better solution may be to add a separate button to launch the footprint viewer and leave the footprint search dialog in place for users who prefer using that instead. I promise you if we remove the footprint search dialog, someone will file a bug report about it shortly there after.
Wayne On 6/14/2015 4:30 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > This patch enables use of the new (kiface) footprint selector in the > "Exchange Footprints" dialog. > > As suggested in this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1464821 > > I'll look into making this change in the module editor as well, but that > will require more work. > > -- > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
