pcbnew save & load preferences saves/loads project instead

Currently the save preferences option refers to the project-level preferences. But these preferences are minimal, at best.

The majority of the settings in the Preferences menu are saved in the user-level config file but can't be imported/exported.

I would propose changing the load/save preferences to load/save the user-level config preferences and leave the project-level preferences with the project file but without the ability to separately import/export the project preferences.

Thoughts?

Your suggestions is as how understood pcbnew to work now so makes sense to me.

@Seth that makes sense to me, are you working on this one?

I haven't started. You are welcome to take it.

Now that I think about this some more, I think what we should do for 5.0 is just delete those two menu options. They are confusing and not needed (you can just save/load project from the project manager). Implementing a UI for saving/loading the config file has some potential pitfalls and I think is a big change to try to do now.

@Seth @Wayne etc. anyone disagree?

I have no objections to that. This feature doesn't exist at the moment, so I think it makes sense to push to 6.

I don't think saving the project file this way makes sense either.

Importing settings from another project might be used however. Maybe we just rename that menu?

Yeah, just renaming seems easiest at the moment, although I think for 6.0 we should re-think how settings work and make it less confusing.

Fixed in revision 285bf79370dc332c48b6a156637421bf3d8dfc8e
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=285bf79370dc332c48b6a156637421bf3d8dfc8e