I suppose the actual text of what to do maybe something in the V4->V5 page that's being drafted. If not, we should draft something up on the list here.
Adam On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:48 PM Adam Wolf <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com> wrote: > > 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
