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From:	Alan Corey <ab1jx AT devio DOT us>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-help] Adding new gschem symbols?
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> Have you read
>
> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:faq-gschem#how_do_i_configure_my_local_gafrc_to_find_my_local_symbol_directory
>
> and related topics?

Not much of anything online because I don't have a full time internet 
connection, and not enough of what's in the downloaded (1.6.2) package. To 
some degree the documentation seems to contradict itself because parts of 
it are old so I'm not sure how seriously to take any of it.  I've mostly 
been sticking to the "Official Project documentation" not the wiki.

> desktop it may be necessary to modify the global gafrc file -- I have

That's what I'd prefer to do since I'm the only user, sometimes as myself 
and sometimes as root.

Desktop? Hah! I use fvwm and I haven't even put any gEDA stuff in the menu 
yet, I usually type gschem or pcb at the command line, but without paying 
attention to where I happen to be.

> When you say "I cant see them", do you mean when you uses "Add ->
> Component" from menu? You have to click on the triangle symbols to
> display entries in a sub folder in the file browser.

No, what I'm looking for is really not there.  But I didn't realize it 
didn't recurse subdirectories, and that names collide.  I thought it would 
be nice to have all those symbols that people have uploaded available so I 
went through a long process of making a sym/cvsed directory then putting 
symbols under submitter names in more subdirectories, something similar 
for footprints.  Lots of names are duplicates, and lots of things I don't 
have any immediate use for, I just thought they'd be nice to have.  I did 
discover gsymcheck and the symbol I'm trying to use passes, I just need to 
reorganize.

At the risk of complicating matters more, ever think about incorporating 
an SQL database?  The database could track symbols and footprints, maybe 
even models, and symbols and footprints at least could probably live in 
the database or be external to it.  Multiple things could exist with the 
same names in different places and you could do a query to see what's 
where.  You could probably even have a preview field that would show what 
a symbol or footprint looked like.

   Alan

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