Wayne, I think you're right that a deeper understanding of how people are using and managing the libraries is required.
However, there still seems to be one of two options if KiCad installs libs into a location where users cannot write: a) Users are not able to update the libraries or otherwise edit them b) Users have to duplicate the library data to somewhere they *do* have access and then reassociate all the library tables I think there is scope for improvement here. I'm not confident enough to say *what* that improvement should be. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the purpose of this change? In what way will it improve the > user experience? Before we ask the package devs to do a lot of work, we > might want to dig deeper into the library management issue. I fail to > see how installing and likely duplicating the entire KiCad library in > the user's home folder solves any of the underlying library management > issues in KiCad other than having write access to modify the installed > libraries which has its own set of issues. In some respects this has > the potential to complicate things even further. I suspect the real > issue is out library editing and management tools. I suggest we wait > until Orson pushes the symbol library editor to see if this improves the > library management situation. Given what I know about it I suspect that > it will improve things significant on the library management side of > things. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 11/8/2017 2:02 AM, Oliver Walters wrote: > > To the package maintainers: > > > > For v5 release, can the default library install path be set to a user > > directory rather than program directory that may require administrator > > rights? > > > > e.g. instead of > > > > C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\... > > or > > /usr/share/kicad/... > > > > something like; > > > > C:\Users\Oliver\KiCad\... > > > > /home/Oliver/KiCad > > > > (Not necessarily those paths but something like that). > > > > A lot of users are reporting issues with being able to download or > > modify library files, due to user privileges. > > > > How attainable is such a change before v5 release? > > > > Thanks, > > Oliver > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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