K5 Collections Manager

[idoit]

Here comes the Persian localization updated for v1.3.3.

Thanks ixtab... I took your advice and finally upgraded my girl Katie 5.0.1 to 5.1.2 just to try this out. And I'm glad, I'll keep this firmware. This is the best homebrewed addition to Kindles ever, great job.

I've got a few comments that come before the Tip Jars full of honey!

1. The items that are assigned to a collection (whatever collection it is) be marked with a greyed check mark. I get lost of what are the items I've already put in a collection and what not.

2. After clicking on "Copy item up/down" button, it'd be nice if the user can see it actually happened, some sort of confirmation... well not a pop-up (as it's too distractive and time consuming) but maybe greyed check mark or automatically hiding those items or etc.

3. Selecting multiple (well in your case a handful of items as it's 5 at a time at most when panes are open) is super cool, but nicer would be if user's selection be still active when going to previous/next page to select even more items (speaking of two panels in Collection Manager). Right now, when you go to next page, the previous ones will be deselected.

4. I think it'd be good if Hide/Show invisible items were just applied to the bottom pane. (As filter is just for top pane). This way, each pane (if user wants to) can have a particular job, top one as source (for selecting and manipulating items) and bottom one as target (for selecting and manipulating collections). BUT if [s]he wants two panes can have same objectives (as they have right now).

hmmm! oops, wish I never said that -> I wonder what is the fate of poor Antoinekamel, now that I saw this.

EDIT: [Off-topic] By the way, now I can access my mp3s right from home screen, I created a Music collection... It'd be great if the built-in audiobook reader could act like built-in mp3 player [play in background] as right now when I close audiobook player, mp3 stops playing.

[ixtab]

So, here's another update.

New features:

• Different display style (font) for collections and "normal" items
• Indicator of how many collections an item is contained in
• Long-click on an item to see which collections it is contained in
• Preferences are saved across restarts
• Search filters are reset after changing the current collection
• Search filters now consider author names as well! (So a filter of "oyl" will still yield "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"). This is a feature, not a bug
• ... and some bugfixes under the hood

Note: I have carefully considered all the remarks and requests that were posted in this thread. Many of the requests are addressed by this update; some aren't. For the ones which weren't addressed: rest assured that there is a good reason for not implementing them

[diba]

Any need for reviewing the translation? Thx for the new version!

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by diba

Any need for reviewing the translation? Thx for the new version!

Nope, no changes on that front. Collections Manager is pretty much an experiment which tries to be as language-neutral (and intuitive) as possible, by using graphical stuff as much as possible. Alas, a few things still need menu items and text, but I'm trying to keep them to a minimum.

[ixtab]

Bugfix release: author determination was incorrect in 1.3.0, which may have had some nasty side effects - sorry.

[yiming]

@ixtab, thanks for implementing my suggestion. this great app is now even greater

but I have one bug to report. I've encountered at least 3 times when the filter input box disappeared. can't remember what led to this. will report with more details if the problem occurs again.

[coolpable]

Thank you ixtab for this incredible application, it turns K5 into a much more powerful device.

I have one suggestion for the future: enabling a select/deselect all feature when you are inside a collection. A single box at the beginning of the list would be enough. I imported all my collection of Photography books from Calibre, but then had to mark one by one to toggle visibility from then Initial page. It wasn't the 12 labors of Hercules, but it would be definitely easier with this feature.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your current work, and will be looking forward to the next releases.

[ergoproxy]

Indeed a great app. Finally decided to try it out along with the JBPatch. Now can continue to manage all my books through Calibre thanks to it. Keep it up, "Mayan Goddess"

[ixtab]

This version adds the feature to toggle the selections for all currently displayed items.
Note: this really means the displayed items, not necessarily all items in the current collection - items which are on other "pages" of the collection are not affected.

In addition, I also built in a nice little easter egg

Spoiler:

No, I'm not going to tell you what it is. After all, that's what easter eggs are all about. It's not terribly hard to find though, either by accident, or by looking at the changeset. I hope you enjoy it if you find it. But please don't spoil the fun by openly discussing it here or disclosing it to others.

[qlob]

Can non KT users find it?

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by qlob

Can non KT users find it?

Hmm... you'd need to look at the changeset and examine the source code. Using only the source code, finding out what it does should be relatively easy; but finding out when exactly it is triggered is probably an advanced exercise

[qlob]

Hmph.... sounds complicated.... maybe later....

[IcyVeins]

Originally Posted by ixtab

In addition, I also built in a nice little easter egg
[SPOILER]
No, I'm not going to tell you what it is. After all, that's what easter eggs are all about. It's not terribly hard to find though, either by accident, or by looking at the changeset. I hope you enjoy it if you find it. But please don't spoil the fun by openly discussing it here or disclosing it to others.

Found the easter egg by looking at the source code - nice

CM still working very nice. Nested collections are perfect for separating novels and university stuff

[victor_2203]

Would it be possible to make an extension for include the access to the "Collections Manager" as a submenu in the Menu Launcher? In the same way that the jbpatch-launcher. If we toggle the icon from Home we can't acces to the Manager, isn't it?

[Titano]

Originally Posted by victor_2203

Would it be possible to make an extension for include the access to the "Collections Manager" as a submenu in the Menu Launcher? In the same way that the jbpatch-launcher. If we toggle the icon from Home we can't acces to the Manager, isn't it?

Yes! Here you go. Just don't delete Collections Manager, place it in a collection then hide it with collection manager. It won't hide without being in a collection.