Personally I think this is a nice solution
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3u-eixTrMbI/VDWb25kPNkI/AAAAAAAAA-g/0qn7ehRq4Mo/s1600/ReadOnly.PNG
Very helpful, instead of the "Edit document" button, there could be
something such as "Copy to user-library for edit".
- Kristoffer
On 11/09/2017 02:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
Would a dialog asking if you want to save a modified library that is
read only to a new folder be an acceptable solution? If so, please file
a bug report and set its status to wish list. I'm not sure when someone
will get around to it but at least we will have a record of it.
On 11/8/2017 7:07 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
i wouldn't particularly call it handholding but i do believe its something that
should be automatically done by kicad if we are to continue bundling such a
number of libraries. The extra command in the toolbar is not particularly
obvious unless you already know about it or it is pointed out to you, i would
almost prefer it to be something that is not a specific command and the code is
only used when you go to save to a system library. although it should
notify/warn that it is a system library and due to this will be copied into
your local user library/dir
On 9/11/2017, at 13:04, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote:
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...
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