Hi folks! I have a question about adding another feature to the fp-lib-tables manager, which is already pretty crowded and I want to get buy-in before even attempting a patch.
Background: Running into another issue with the KiCad Mac experience. Just to recap, I'm trying for 2 DMGs. One is called "KiCad Extras" and currently includes the modules from github, and the fp-table-lib.for-pretty renamed just fp-table-lib. The idea is that users can download the extras DMG, and no longer need to be online for Kicad. The modules directory is fine, we provide a "drop target" (just a symlink) of /Library/Application Support/kicad/. However, the fp-table-lib is tricky. The per-user "global" (across projects" fp-table-lib is located in ~/Library/Preferences/kicad/ We cannot make a "drop target" in a DMG that points to ~/. Making a "package" works around this, but users don't like packages unless they're part of App Store (because they usually don't realize they're packages :)). I don't want to do that. Question: Would a way to "load default fp-lib-tables" be useful to other people in the library table manager? This would take a look at what fp-lib-tables.* are available in a location, and give users the ability to replace their fp-lib-tables with known defaults--i.e. I want to use github, I want to use eagle, I want to use on-disk pretties downloaded from github... The more I think about this, I think that it might not only help the Mac install experience, but actually help the new user experience on all platforms. Thoughts? (and greetings from Montreal, where I am on business and also working on Kicad Mac nightlies while stuffed with curry poutine...) Adam Wolf Cofounder and Engineer W&L
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