Use "Symbol Chooser" in "Edit Symbol Library References" dialog instead of "Symbol Library Browser"

[Antonio Vázquez Blanco]

I have been working in KiCad v4 with the new library repos for a while. I decided to test the nighlies and found that schematic conversion does not really work very well.

After some work remapping components one by one someone told me that there is a hidden functionality in the 'Edit -> Edit Symbol Library Link' menu. It is nice as a backup when remap does not work properly but it is not very easy to find.

I am sugesting to put a button in the recovery dialogs when you open an old project that links to that functionality or at least mention it in the recovery dialog messages.

Another thing is that the use of that functionality is not very intuitive. In order to select a new symbol you have to right click. One may expect a context menu with that action. I sugest a left click or a double left click to select a new component.

[Antonio Vázquez Blanco (antoniovazquezblanco)]

More feedback, when using the library asociation dialog, if you right click in the new symbol box the symbol library browser appears but it does not have any kind of search funciton. It would be lovely to reuse the same dialog as in the add component command, reducing the codebase and increasing the functionality.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

The usability issues were fixed for 5.1, and the menu location & text improved to make finding it easier.

Switching to the Symbol Chooser has not yet been done.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2100