[kiwidude]

I love this feature for adding entries that I then tag as Wishlist items to identify missing books in a series or other novels by the author I don't have yet.

However as I use it so often I made two tweaks to it in my version of the source code and wondered whether there was any interest by others as a patch.

(1) I default the author(s) for the empty books to that of the currently selected row, if any. I have always drilled down into an author before I have checked/decided a wishlist book is needed to be created. Defaulting the author saves a bunch of typing/pasting afterwards, and doesn't alter the current order on screen like the bulk metadata edit dialog does.

(2) I put it on a Ctrl+E keyboard shortcut.

I had already created a ticket with an alternative suggestion of modifying the dialog that asks how many books so also have a textbox on it with a default author name that you can overtype if needed. However that requires creating a whole new UI dialog (the existing approach gets away with a "built-in integer" dialog) which is way beyond my Python/Qt skills to help with. The behaviour I implemented above does exactly what I need instead.

If any interest/violent disagreement please say so here, otherwise it will remain as just a local patch on my copy...