Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-11 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 05/10/2012 02:34 PM, jean-pierre charras wrote: Le 10/05/2012 18:21, Moses McKnight a écrit : ... In the new designs, when you add a symbol, does it have a tag telling which library it came from? Currently if two libraries have a part with the same name, the part will be pulled from the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-11 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 05/11/2012 07:44 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 05/10/2012 02:34 PM, jean-pierre charras wrote: Le 10/05/2012 18:21, Moses McKnight a écrit : ... In the new designs, when you add a symbol, does it have a tag telling which library it came from? Currently if two libraries have a part with

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-11 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:44:06AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: We are all entitled to our opinions. I think the current design is broken, and the ambiguity of which partname is chosen, is a bigger problem than any you mention below: The current design *has* problem; the 'cache' library

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-11 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:49:54AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: I should also mention that ALL parts are always in the parts list with the new design. So the need to move parts from one library to another is significantly reduced. But I agree that the problem you mention needs to be

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-11 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 11/05/2012 14:44, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit : On 05/10/2012 02:34 PM, jean-pierre charras wrote: Le 10/05/2012 18:21, Moses McKnight a écrit : ... In the new designs, when you add a symbol, does it have a tag telling which library it came from? Currently if two libraries have a part with the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-11 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 05/11/2012 07:49 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 05/11/2012 07:44 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 05/10/2012 02:34 PM, jean-pierre charras wrote: Le 10/05/2012 18:21, Moses McKnight a écrit : ... In the new designs, when you add a symbol, does it have a tag telling which library it came from?

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:26:21PM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote: Hi, There are a few quirks with preferences in Kicad it seems. I'm running Kicad on Ubuntu 12.04 from Adam's PPA. 1. The first is that the preferences file for eeschema has changed recently from .eeschema to .EESchema - is

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 10/05/2012 08:15, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit : On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:26:21PM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote: Hi, There are a few quirks with preferences in Kicad it seems. I'm running Kicad on Ubuntu 12.04 from Adam's PPA. 1. The first is that the preferences file for eeschema has

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 05/09/2012 10:26 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: Hi, There are a few quirks with preferences in Kicad it seems. I'm running Kicad on Ubuntu 12.04 from Adam's PPA. 1. The first is that the preferences file for eeschema has changed recently from .eeschema to .EESchema - is this intentional?

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 05/10/2012 01:47 AM, jean-pierre charras wrote: Le 10/05/2012 08:15, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit : On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:26:21PM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote: Hi, There are a few quirks with preferences in Kicad it seems. I'm running Kicad on Ubuntu 12.04 from Adam's PPA. 1. The

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread Moses McKnight
On 05/10/2012 08:10 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 05/09/2012 10:26 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: 3. It seems to me it would make a lot more sense to put the library search paths in the .eeschema preferences file than in the project file. Do people actually use different paths for library files

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 05/10/2012 09:14 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 08:10:33AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: Library search paths are on their death bed. You should not have to search for a library after you know where it is. New designs do away with this concept, and so if anyone

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 10/05/2012 18:21, Moses McKnight a écrit : ... In the new designs, when you add a symbol, does it have a tag telling which library it came from? Currently if two libraries have a part with the same name, the part will be pulled from the library that is listed first in the list. If the part

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 05/10/2012 11:21 AM, Moses McKnight wrote: On 05/10/2012 08:10 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 05/09/2012 10:26 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: 3. It seems to me it would make a lot more sense to put the library search paths in the .eeschema preferences file than in the project file. Do people

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-10 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:14:16PM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: (lib_table (lib (logical meparts)(type dir)(full_uri /tmp/eeschema-lib)(options useVersioning)) (lib (logical old-project)(type schematic)(full_uri /tmp/old-schematic.sch)(options )) (lib (logical www)(type

[Kicad-developers] Kicad preference questions

2012-05-09 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi, There are a few quirks with preferences in Kicad it seems. I'm running Kicad on Ubuntu 12.04 from Adam's PPA. 1. The first is that the preferences file for eeschema has changed recently from .eeschema to .EESchema - is this intentional? 2. When I change the grid size it always goes