Improve handling of unrecognized files
Bug #1828237 reported by
Jon Evans
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| KiCad |
New
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Unknown
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Bug Description
It is possible to send "wrong" files to KiCad apps via the command line.
See: https:/
Another user recently reported the same thing:
They were trying to open a PCB via command line, and did `kicad <filename.
The KiCad project manager does not handle this well (spits out a confusing parser error)
We should at least give a slightly better error here "This doesn't look like a KiCad project file" or something like that. We could also go beyond that and (a) either recognize other KiCad file types and alert the user to how to open them, or (b) just directly launch the relevant KiCad program and pass the desired file to it.
| Changed in kicad: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
Revision history for this message
| KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Triaged → Expired |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| importance: | Wishlist → Unknown |
| status: | Expired → New |
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