On 9/2/2014 12:50 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: > On 09/02/2014 11:36 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 8/31/2014 8:35 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: >>> On 08/31/2014 11:07 AM, jp charras wrote: >>>> Le 31/08/2014 13:59, Moses McKnight a écrit : > <snip> >>>>> As I mentioned, I didn't change how it is done in Windows, so the >>>>> configs are still in the registry there. If desired it would be >>>>> trivial >>>>> to put them in config files in %APPADATA%\kicad as well. wxConfig by >>>>> default uses the registry in Windows, but that can be changed easily. >>>> >>>> I tested it on Linux and On Windows. >>>> It works fine. >>>> >>>> If nobody complains, I'll commit you patch soon. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>> >>> Do you think it would be good to make it automatically move the old >>> files to the new location, or just inform the users of the need to do >>> that if they don't want to re-enter their settings? The file names in >>> ~/.config/kicad will not have the dot in front, so instead of >>> ".eeschema" it will be simply "eeschema". If it would be better to >>> still have them be dot files, I can change that. This would make it so >>> the old config files could simply be moved and not have to be re-named - >>> if it is done manually. >>> >>> Also, should the global fp-lib-table be moved as well? I did not look >>> at that one. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Moses >>> >> >> Moses, >> >> I don't think it's necessary to copy the old files. Most of the >> configuration set up is fairly trivial. If you've been using KiCad for >> any length of time, there probably is a lot of cruft in the config files >> that is no longer used. If we are going to make this change, I >> recommend moving fp-lib-table there as well. Splitting up the KiCad >> configuration files in multiple places will only confuse users. I also >> recommend migrating windows over to config files instead of using the >> registry. The global fp-lib-table file is alread in the %APPDATA%/kicad >> folder on windows. I'm sure there will be some grumbling but it's much >> easier for developers have someone send a config file than digging >> around the windows registry. >> >> Wayne > > Ok, I can add that to my patch and re-send it if you want me to. I > haven't looked into what it would take to move the fp-lib-table, but I > should be able to move the windows config to %APPDATA%/kicad in a few > minutes of work. > > Oh, on another subject, this list is one of the few I'm on (out of > dozens) that does not send replies back to the list but send to the > poster instead. That is annoying because for this list I have to be > careful to hit the right button or add kicad-developers to the > recipients. Is there a way to make the default reply-to be the list? > > Thanks, > Moses >
I generally get mine from the mailing list. Some mail clients will reply to the list and the person who posted the message if the person replying isn't careful. I don't know if there is a configuration issue in play or not. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
