Sure. I can even have just a message saying "If you are upgrading KiCad, please read the README" with a little arrow to the README file.
Next--what do I instruct our users to do? Adam On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:45 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Adam, I've often seen applications use the background image of the DMG to > convey important information that they want the user to see during > installation. > > -S > > > Am Do., 21. Juni 2018 um 19:52 Uhr schrieb Adam Wolf > <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com>: >> >> I am pretty concerned about this. There is no place in the macOS >> package to put instructions that users will read. (There is a README >> but I do not believe many people open it.) >> >> Is there any way we can detect if the fp-lib-table is out of sync and >> tell a user at run time? >> >> Adam >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:54 PM Rene Pöschl <poesc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > >> > I know we are in feature freeze. It seems a lot of people struggle with >> > the transition from kicad 4 to kicad 5. One of the things that could >> > help a lot would be some way of forcing a reset of the user config >> > directory contents to the default. (cold also help later on if for some >> > reason the config directory got compromised.) >> > >> > Especially for the fp-lib-table. It is really not obvious to a lot of >> > people using the official library that this one would need to be reset >> > after updating from kicad 4 to kicad 5. (The files for the official >> > symbol and 3d libraries are updated. The sym-lib-table is "updated" as >> > it never existed before. Meaning without user intervention the footprint >> > library will be out of sync with all other types of libraries.) >> > >> > I think a message in the installer should be the least that should be >> > done. (But that one will only work where kicad has a specific >> > installation tool.) >> > >> > A message on first run of kicad 5 might be even better (maybe the >> > message stating that the default sym-lib-table has been introduced could >> > hint at the fact that the fp-lib-table might need resetting as well. Or >> > a message with a tick-mark "do not show again".) >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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