Mario, That's not going to happen. I specifically designed the environment variable behavior for development purposes. That's why the environment variables defined externally to kicad take precedence. This allows me to keep my test libraries separate from my normal working libraries. This allows me to do:
export KISYSMOD=/path/to/test/footprint/libraries pcbnew which is really useful for debugging and testing. Entries in the environment variable configuration table in kicad are highlighted in grey to inform the user that a given variable was defined externally. We even have a help dialog that explains this which if I am not mistaken is the *only* help button provided by any dialog in kicad. On clean installs this should not be an issue because it's highly unlikely that users will have any of environment variable defined that are used by kicad. Wayne On 4/20/2016 4:04 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > Hi Cirilo, > > Thinking as a regular user perspective, I vote for "WYSIWYG", i.e: the one > defined in the GUI. > Users will get puzzled if something that they don't see is change the > variable path. > > Mario > ________________________________________ > From: Kicad-developers > [[email protected]] on behalf of > Cirilo Bernardo [[email protected]] > Sent: 20 April 2016 01:19 > To: KiCad Developers > Subject: [Kicad-developers] 3D filename resolution > > Hi folks, > > I'm cleaning up the new 3D filename resolution code, removing some > redundant code and fixing corner-case bugs which break with legacy > behavior. I'd just like some input on one item: if a ENV_VAR path has > been defined via "Preferences->Configure Paths" and that ENV_VAR > already exists on the system, which one has preference? For most > UNIX applications the behavior is to use the ENV_VAR defined within > the shell rather than the locally defined values. > > - Cirilo > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
