New footprint library not alphabetical in drop down

Bug #1836911 reported by Jacob Michael Winters
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Released
Low
Seth Hillbrand

Bug Description

If one creates a footprint library from within the footprint editor the new library does not show up alphabetically within the save as pop up window for selecting the library you want to save your new footprint in. A minor issue that only caused confusion for a moment.

Tags: pcbnew ui
description: updated
tags: added: wishlist
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Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh) wrote :

Please copy the full version information from About KiCad -> Copy Version Info.

tags: added: pcbnew
removed: qol quality.of.life wishlist
Changed in kicad:
status: New → Incomplete
tags: added: ui
Jeff Young (jeyjey)
summary: - footprint library not in drop down
+ New footprint library not alphabetical in drop down
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Jacob Michael Winters (drumcorundumconundrum) wrote :

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2)-2, 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 8 (build 9200), 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

Revision history for this message
Seth Hillbrand (sethh) wrote :

They are alphabetical but some are case-sensitive and some are not. This is confusing and we should fix it.

Changed in kicad:
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → 5.1.3
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in kicad:
milestone: 5.1.3 → 5.1.4
Changed in kicad:
milestone: 5.1.4 → 5.1.5
Revision history for this message
KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote :

Fixed in revision 0ba0c172453eb769279020ffb9302421aeb49e96
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=0ba0c172453eb769279020ffb9302421aeb49e96

Changed in kicad:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Seth Hillbrand (sethh)
Changed in kicad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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