Comment 7 for bug 1066220

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jean-pierre charras (jp-charras) wrote :

Well, even for an English speaker, locking a footprint needs to be defined.
I am (obviously) not an English speaker, but I am thinking a locked footprint cannot be moved, rotated, flipped or deleted (at least without prompting the user).
I could call these changes "geometrical changes" or "topological changes".

However it can be (partially) edited:
Fields(ref, value) can be moved/edited.
Netlist can be updated.
Netlist can change the footprint (but not delete it, because it can be added outside the netlist, for instance mechanical holes).

The issue is just the user is not always asked for these geometrical changes.