I can relate to this issue. It happened to me as well and I thought my library setup wasn't right. Then I found out it was showing power symbols only.
+1 to make it more evident. At least changing the dialog title? Thanks, Diego On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM, kristoffer Ödmark < kristofferodmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, that to adds to the confusion. I think maybe coherency should be one > of the main goal for v6. > > > On 2018-02-05 13:25, Marco Ciampa wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:10:08PM +0100, kristoffer Ödmark wrote: >> >>> Hey! >>> >>> I just spent some time trying to "debug" a library non-issue with a EE >>> switching from Altium for a test. He had added the libraries correctly, >>> and >>> they showed up. But everytime he tried adding a symbol to the schematic, >>> no >>> symbols was there. We sent pictures back and forth, and indeed the >>> libraries >>> added, but did not show up. >>> >>> To make a long hassle short, turns out the shortcut "P" is used to place >>> symbols in Altium, but to place Power symbols in kicad. >>> This is not an issue, however, there is no indication at all that the >>> symbol >>> chooser is actually filtered or limited when using the shortcut key. >>> >>> I think there could be benefits of adding some kind of visualization to >>> the >>> symbol chooser that the list is limited to only power symbols, maybe just >>> changing the window title to something like "Choose Power Symbol" or the >>> more general term of adding the filter to the window name. Let me know >>> what >>> you think >>> >> Also when you place a power symbol, the dialog shows normal symbols in >> the history list, and it also permits to insert these symbols even if >> they are not power symbols... that to me seems incoherent... >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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