There are usability problems with the new Footprint Library Editor when a footprint is opened from a board to be edited. First, the editor seems to select the original library's footprint in the tree view. That's misleading because that's not the footprint which is under work. Then there's the save action which normally saves the opened footprint to the file which is selected in the tree view. But now it doesn't do that, it saves to the board from which the footprint was opened, which is inconsistent. And lastly it's not obvious that you can save the footprint to the board at all because there's no hint about that kind of action anywhere. The tool button which was still in v5.0 isn't there anymore, and even the tooltip of the Save button says it saves to the active library, which isn't true.
Fixed in revision e5e1a315f19a612 bc0719a5c27f275 0edcb68c43 /git.launchpad. net/kicad/ patch/? id=e5e1a315f19a 612bc0719a5c27f 2750edcb68c43
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