Exactly how much hand holding is KiCad expected to do? There is already a "save the current library as" command in the file menu of both the symbol and footprint library editors. There is a small bug in that grays out the command until you load a symbol but it allows you to save any library to a folder that the user has write access to and modify it at will without changing the originally installed libraries which IMO is a good thing. Of course you could do a good old fashion file copy or git clone or ... How many ways to we really need to perform this one simple task or am I completely missing something.
On 11/08/2017 06:15 PM, Simon Wells wrote: > ideally if someone tried to save to a bundled library there should be > something that pops up and says you can't/shouldn't and then offers to do > most if not all of that for you, however i would prefer to see it only saving > the footprint to userdir, i think you will find this is how most other > software would handle a similar circumstance > >> On 9/11/2017, at 12:12, easyw <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think it's a far more risky that a user makes accidental changes to the >>> bundled library. Simple users should not need to touch it, and should >>> rather copy or make a new part. >> >> so if a user wants to add a missing parts to his/her library he/her needs to >> save it to a different location, close the i.e. fp editor, copy with >> administrative privileges the fp to the Admin folder and restart the sw to >> use it? >> I don't think other sw are using this procedure... >> This is just my opinion... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
