Den 20/04/2016 14.16 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambau...@gmail.com>: > > Mario, > > That's not going to happen. I specifically designed the environment > variable behavior for development purposes. That's why the environment > variables defined externally to kicad take precedence. This allows me > to keep my test libraries separate from my normal working libraries. > This allows me to do: > > export KISYSMOD=/path/to/test/footprint/libraries > pcbnew > > which is really useful for debugging and testing. Entries in the > environment variable configuration table in kicad are highlighted in > grey to inform the user that a given variable was defined externally.
So does it show the external env var or the config one? If it shows the external one, that is what Mario expects. > We even have a help dialog that explains this which if I am not mistaken > is the *only* help button provided by any dialog in kicad. On clean > installs this should not be an issue because it's highly unlikely that > users will have any of environment variable defined that are used by kicad. > > Wayne > > On 4/20/2016 4:04 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > > Hi Cirilo, > > > > Thinking as a regular user perspective, I vote for "WYSIWYG", i.e: the one defined in the GUI. > > Users will get puzzled if something that they don't see is change the variable path. > > > > Mario > > ________________________________________ > > From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro= ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Cirilo Bernardo [ cirilo.berna...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 20 April 2016 01:19 > > To: KiCad Developers > > Subject: [Kicad-developers] 3D filename resolution > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm cleaning up the new 3D filename resolution code, removing some > > redundant code and fixing corner-case bugs which break with legacy > > behavior. I'd just like some input on one item: if a ENV_VAR path has > > been defined via "Preferences->Configure Paths" and that ENV_VAR > > already exists on the system, which one has preference? For most > > UNIX applications the behavior is to use the ENV_VAR defined within > > the shell rather than the locally defined values. > > > > - Cirilo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
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