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08-07-2023, 06:30 PM | #107 |
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08-09-2023, 05:19 AM | #108 |
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Lol. I did indeed relocate to Australia, no idea where Thailand came in the mix
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03-16-2024, 11:25 PM | #109 |
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Favourites Menu v1.3.1
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https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...es_menu-v1.3.1 |
03-29-2024, 08:57 PM | #110 |
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I wish any action available to Favourites Menu could be added directly to Calibre toolbars! But I sense this would require another plugin, perhaps? Maybe on some rainy day?
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I don't get what you are asking for - each plugin already has its own capability to specify what calibre toolbars it can be supported on. What else is there?
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03-29-2024, 09:25 PM | #112 |
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For instance, there are Preferences sub-menu items that aren't available to be added directly to the toolbars, such as Toolbars & Menus, Shortcuts, Plugins, Look & Feel... Then you also have all Action Chains, Reading Lists, Saved Searches and other actions whose buttons, despite being available to Favourite Menus as menu items, can't be added directly to Calibre toolbars
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You will have to ask Kovid elsewhere for that sort of capability i.e. specifically to allow a plugin to return multiple top-level shortcuts rather than a single one.
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thanks, I'd thought about maybe something hackish that wouldn't imply a change in base-calibre
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03-29-2024, 09:47 PM | #115 |
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The built-in toolbars are all part of the base calibre UI/codebase - plugins are at the mercy of what API points Kovid has exposed. Favorites Menu is as far as the "hack" approach can be taken while a plugin is limited to a single menu action in those toolbars.
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03-29-2024, 10:48 PM | #116 |
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Sometimes I feel I'm so addicted to Calibre that I wouldn't mind having it command some IOT maid robot to get me a beer upon a single toolbar button click
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03-29-2024, 11:21 PM | #117 |
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Two enhancements I'd like to see in Favourites, sub-menu's, and shortcut display if the action has one.
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It is in theory possible to make a UI plugin that executes a sub-action or sub-menu -- a variant of the favorites plugin. The user would choose which operation the plugin should do when triggered. The biggest problem: finding a way to get more than one of them, because the plugin is itself a single action. One would require multiple instances of the plugin to get multiple actions. |
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Thanks chaley yes that is all as I expected being intentional limitations.
To me if the api cant be extended to support multiple actions, then the other alternative is building directly in calibre the equivalent of a “customize toolbar” command that some apps have like Visual Studio. Where the user is presented with a list of all the possible actions reported by plugins and each one they choose to add gets wrapped by this customize feature into a button action for the toolbar. That would be the ultimate to me - it does annoy me for instance that my #1 most frequent menu in calibre of viewing a reading list has to be navigated via a submenu so I can understand the request. But writing dedicated plugins for every example like that clearly is not scalable/practical. |
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