02-27-2012, 11:26 AM | #46 |
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I don't think Calibre is "difficult to use", but rather it can be overwhelming. Fortunately, most of the basic functions one would use it for (add book, send to device, etc) are included as default buttons on the toolbar.
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This is the new, user-friendly version that's much more prone to breaking.
Also, people often say, "Calibre's UI is ugly and it should be fixed," but they never really provide any examples of how to fix it. At its heart, calibre is a database program. It's data-centric, and needs to display that data in a useful manner. I for one do not want a wood-grained shelf metaphor. I like the detailed list view of books in calibre. It gets the job done quickly and efficiently and looks just fine while doing it. I'm not a big fan of some of the icons, but it's easy to replace those (I'm a software engineer, not a graphic designer, so I'm not even going to attempt to contribute icons ). Personally, I've been using the metro-look icons for some time now. |
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Calibre could use some minor UI cleanups (the settings dialog could be reorganized, for example), but overall it does what it needs to do quite well, with good default actions for most things while not preventing more complex actions from being taken. |
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