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Ah, that's not a problem at all. Probably I'll check the sources myself, but here is some more elaboration anyway. I don't mean to convince you to implement that stuff, just to make ideas for possible features clearer.
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No, because it wouldn't be possible to know which collection new books should go into.
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The collection should be the one named after book's folder. I believe it's quite easy from code point.
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The current view is hierarchical. If you were thinking about something like a "tree mode", then no. A tree mode doesn't make sense at all with the current user interface. Think about it.
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"/" displays everything on kindle, including music files. I was also meaning including folders into the list. I.e. I'm thinking about your Collections Manager as a tool for sync between directory structure and collections. So / should display something like documents/, music/, audible/. Inside of documents/: "root" collections, folders from /mnt/us/documents/ that differ from those root collections and files from documents/.
Current "/" is unusable without filters, if you have many files and nested collections.
And yes, tree view would be awful.
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No. It would ruin the "up/down" buttons understandability. Plus, there is no need for more buttons (but there would be the space for one, or even two, more)
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You need that screenshot to understand them anyway.
Also it will allow a little more space for list.
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No. But that's just because I'm lazy, because it would require two buttons instead of one (for upper/lower pane), and because the whole idea of the program isn't to move massive amounts of items around (and clicking 5 items instead of one is still acceptable).
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Then how should you move those amounts around?
It only needs 1 button (for top pane). Toggle button is already single, right?
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No. No way. This is a collections manager, not a content manager.
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But it would be so nice to have 2in1.
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I don't need posts like "Help! I accidentally clicked on the wrong button, now you help me to recover the book that I paid for" here.
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Don't let dumb people limit usability.^^
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A tree structure makes no sense
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Why? Isn't flat structure of native manager exactly what people were complaining about?
The simplest use case is to have your books organized somewhat like %topic%/%author%/book. Then you can hit "Create from directories" once and "Update from directories" any time you add new folder.
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Please don't get carried away. The thing you're requesting would touch many, many more aspects than just collections. You're requesting a new framework here.
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Oh, new non-java framework would be sooo nice indeed.
But I was asking if you know any elegant way to implement all that stuff (like toggling inactive amazon features
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