no clear way to turn off all footprint fields in eeschema

[jake waters]

if you back-import footprint information into a schematic in eeschema, first you are asked:
Do you want to force all the footprint fields visibility?

if you answer No (because you DONT want your footprints to become visible) you may end up with a lot of visible footprints, because they were already visible but they were empty, and you have not changed their visibility.

If you answer Yes, it then asks (in a new dialog box):
Do you want to make all the footprint fields visible?

you can choose No, Cancel, or Yes. Choosing No makes all footprints invisible, choosing yes makes them all visible.

This is very confusing. It should instead present a single dialog box, asking:
Do you want to change all footprint fields to Visible or Invisible?

and offer buttons for "All Visible" "All Invisible" "No thanks"

now that footprints are much longer (with a reference to their library path) the fields are long and purple and make a mess, and one can find no way of turning them off other than one by one, clicking, each part, clicking...

same problem was reported on this site a year ago:
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/57725/footprint-field-visibility-options-in-eeschema-kicad

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

This was fixed in r5102. The new behavior should be much less confusing as well.