How do generic components now work? about kicad-symbols

[jkriege2]

The lib has been transfered sometime before christmas, so it should be there, if you update:
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-symbols/blob/master/Device.lib

[poeschlr]

If you update the lib files, you still need to add them to kicad. For kicad version 4 you need to do this for every project via eeschema->preferences->component libs.
For kicad nightly (after sym-lib-table addition) you can add the libs to your global sym-lib-table.

[JustEnoughDucks]

I have already added them to kiCAD. You are correct. It wasn't showing up in the filter as none of them have descriptions anymore.

If I specifically search for C_small though I can find it. I would recommend the addition of descriptions to generic parts.

[poeschlr]

This happens if the lib is saved with a recent nightly build. It changes the library version information. This results in older kicad versions not seeing the dcm file content.

[JustEnoughDucks]

So this will be fixed at the next update? If so, then there is no issue here.

[poeschlr]

I created a pull request to fix this particular problem. #175

[poeschlr]

We will create a separate branch for kicad 4 compatibility. See discussion in #191. Commit e60f1f1 should be save to use until then.