Hi folks,
I will prepare a PR to shorten the macOS Download page while including
instructions.
This will allow folks who are not macOS users to know the appropriate steps
and help out on the forums.
It is true that nearly all of our users don't need these instructions, but
by putting them only i
Yes, exactly my point. We already used the 30 seconds of attention span on
the download page trying to help describe the different options for stable
and what versions og macos is supported.
The user simply need one click to go to the instructions after that one
click needed to open the installer.
Hi,
Well guys like me could help with things like that if we would have the
info required. Which is exactly why i requested documentation on the
download page. When the questions were made i looked at the download
page and there is nothing (there is also no place in the docu that
looked like
Carsten,
Can you make a PR for the download page that looks like what you want?
You seem to understand that users won't read a wall of text on the download
page, and any instructions need to be extremely succinct. I would gladly
advocate for a good PR for the download page.
Adam
On Sat, Apr 25
Hi Nick,
Am 25.04.20 um 12:58 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
I don't think we gain anything by adding more complexity to the
download page. It is after all just a download page.
I can't follow your reasoning here. Please pick up the users there they
are and not there you think they are.
Writing som
Hi folks,
I do not believe that the users on that forum are correct about Catalina.
You do not need to chmod anything, for instance.
I mean this in the kindest way, but I am not sure how to solve the issue of
users authoritatively suggesting random things when someone else has a
problem :). I do
Hi Adam,
Looks like KiCad already has a Cask:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/kicad.rb.
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 16:32, Adam Wolf wrote:
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> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Rene.
>
> I have attached two images, one showing what "normal" macOS
> i
I don't think we gain anything by adding more complexity to the
download page. It is after all just a download page.
If we really need to do very step-by-step and verbose explanations for
those can't can't read the README in the installer, I think that is
better suited in a chapter of the document
And again,
Sorry forgot to add this. There seem to be some problems for some users
on Catalina. I am not sure if what got suggested on the forum [1] is the
correct way to install KiCad on Catalina. Would be great if somebody
knowledgeable would double check the proposed solutions and possibly
Hi again,
might it be a good idea to add the content of the Readme to the download
page? That way it would bring the Mac download page to the standard of
the ubuntu one. (That page also explains the "normal" way to install
from a third party source.) Even better would be if screenshots are
in
Just a small comment. The windows that Adam attached are actually
Finder, the file explorer thing on macos, that is stylized as part of
the Disk Image file (.dmg). Hence, when the user do the "drag the
KiCad folder to Applications" it is just a normal file copy. It just
happens that apple peeps "l
This is completely standard. Infact, the .pkg installers that Jon
mentioned are in my experience very rare (only Microsoft Office and
MatLab initially spring to mind).
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 15:22, Rene Pöschl wrote:
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> Hi all but especially adam,
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>
> lately there where a few threads on the fo
I believe these users are talking about the normal MacOS method of
installing software,
which does typically involve copying files.
Normally MacOS software is packaged as a disk image that is mounted when
you double click it.
The mounted image then normally contains the software to be installed,
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