I am playing with the nightly, Sep 19th build Windows build in a VM. I have noticed the sym-lib-table, and I am able to populate it OK etc. However it does not have any effect as far as I can see, only the old method of defining search paths seems to work. There is a thread from dec 2016, https://forum.kicad.info/t/symbol-library-table-confusion-nightlies/4618/2 which points to a message from Wayne Stambaugh, https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg26954.html
that it is just being loaded and not used. However this is fairly old information. Can someone inform us as to whether sym-lib-table is supposed to be active now in the Windows Sept 19th build?
An additional question, on current practice (I am well aware that we of course are in a transition) with respect to symbols in the nightly: If you are managing atomic parts, how do you presently organize the symbol part of it (currently in legacy format). While I in the beginning created a single library for that, “own_libs” at some point I broke that up into separate libraries for each atomic part, in a single subfolder (all under my home directory tree of course) with the name "own_libs. but if one were to deal with a working sym-lib-table, that would get pretty cumbersome as each entry points to a library not a folder as in fp-lib-table. So do you keep atomic parts together in a common library?