Legacy Toolset default in Footprint Editor

[Piotr Gałka]

I have reported a Bug #1811821 being not avare that I am working in Legacy Toolset (F9). When I got that knowledge I have written there how r12136 behaved in that subject (probably not important now).

I have installed todays Windows 64 nightly (r12157). Now it is better but still F9 is default if not run PcbNew.
Is better because I didn't noticed automatic change to F9 after once set F11 what had place in r12136.

Step by step:
1. delete Roaming/kicad dir,
2. run KiCad
3. open pic_programmer.pro (a copy in my working dir) as without it nothing works.
4. run Footprint Editor
5. Look into settings - I am in F9

You are working in Footprint Editor in F9 till you first run PcbNew.

I am at stage of preparing my libraries so didn't run PcbNew. I was sure that since 5.0.0 default is Modern Toolset so didn't checked it.

Application: kicad
Version: (6.0.0-rc1-dev-1542-gf9f87b3ff), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

I'll set this low as running pcbnew once will resolve this unless there are knock-on effects.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Hi Jeff-

After this change, eeschema no longer saves the fallback state. If I edit the config file to be canvas_type=2, I can get cairo to start on open. But if I select OpenGL (when not supported), I get the message saying "Could not use OpenGL, falling back to software rendering". But it saves canvas_type=1 and gives me the same message again on starting next time. Apart from editing the config file, I can no longer get it to save Cairo as my default.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision 7bec707160d4834b141a908ac3e18c619b4829a7
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=7bec707160d4834b141a908ac3e18c619b4829a7

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Seth, was the Kicad Janitor 5 hours late, or was your message referring to an earlier change?

If it was referring to 7bec707160d4834b141a908ac3e18c619b4829a7, that would be a pretty good trick as I only changed footprint_edit_frame.cpp and pcb_edit_frame.cpp. (Not that I haven't managed pretty good tricks before.)

JP did make some changes here earlier. Perhaps that's what sunk eeschema?

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Sorry Jeff, I got my bisect wrong. Thanks for the headsup