Hi Rene, Comments in-line:
> On 19 Feb 2018, at 12:07, Rene Pöschl <poesc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19/02/18 12:14, Jeff Young wrote: >> The Open / List All button is much faster on all libraries than it used to >> be, and it’s a bit of a step-child to Search by Keyword and Select by >> Browser anyway. >> >> So, I’m going to propose that we add a Library selection widget to New >> Footprint..., Export Library... and Save As... and otherwise abandon the >> active library concept. > > If you remove the active library concept from the "list all" stuff then you > might want to add a way to filter (by library) after that dialog opened. > The live filtering of the list all dialog is much more powerful then the > filter by keyword button. (I personally never use the search by keyword > feature as i in most cases know in what lib a footprint resides. Otherwise i > can use search all without having an active lib.) I have no issue against this in principal, but why not just use the Select by Browser then? It’s not only got the by-library organisation, but it has better filtering across libraries, and it shows nice images. Hmmm… I suppose the Browser is missing the Filter option…. > > One use-case where filtering by a specific lib might be helpful is library > maintenance. The maintainer might have multiple different versions of the > same lib in their system. (I have three copies of the footprint library added > to my review project. Differentiated by a prefix to the library nickname. > Results in >300 libs active in this project.) > > The save button should also have a way to remember in which lib the currently > edited footprint resides and offer a one click save. (Fill out the target lib > and footprint name such that by default the current footprint is overwritten.) > The use-case for "i want to edit a footprint" is much more common then "i > want to copy a footprint to a different lib/name". (At least for me.) Indeed, that’s the root motivation behind getting rid of the active library concept. > > A bonus would be if the selection of the target lib is made easy via some > live filtering option. (The official lib already has >100 footprint libs) > > And please do not remove the lib browser! This is the only way of checking a > large number of footprints in a fast way. This feature has already been > removed for symbols. (By removing the symbol selector with the preview.) > Don't make the same mistake on the footprint side. Could you say more about this? Do you mean the Footprints view in the Symbol Selector? (You can re-enable that through preferences.) Or something else? Cheers, Jeff. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
