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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Hmmm, not having a linux box myself I can't test it myself. You did install the later version I sent you right? A shortcut value should be something like 'Ctrl+Shift+1' (no quotes) or indeed 'Ctrl+S'. Perhaps the casing matters? The main thing is to make sure there is no conflict with existing Calibre shortcuts or those of other plugins (Ctrl+S is used by my "Search from Clipboard" plugin in case you had that installed).
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Yes, I have installed version you sent me. It just took me two days to download 30kB file from Rapidshare due to their ... aehm ... "Improved"(*) interface.
I have installed it to Linux
and also to windows and I can't make keyboard shortcuts work on
either system. I must be doing something wrong. I will try again ...
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
I understand what you want to achieve but I would be extremely reluctant to approach it that way. Other than I don't particularly like the cryptic nature of it, there is the simple fact that I will likely add more preferences to that plugin over time  .
I think we need to get the keyboard shortcuts working for you - that way you can just issue those before you do an action and that way be sure that the preferences have switched if moving the mouse to dropdown the toolbar button is too inconvenient. |
well, "one click away" is *vastly* more convenient than previous solution of having to navigate through several layers of Preferences dialog and then copying and pasting one of several desired regular expressions for file input parsing from an open text editor.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
What you "really" want is some kind of information panel displayed on screen with info in it.
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Exactly. With info on it, and an ability to click and change that setting.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Unfortunately that would require changes to Calibre source and are not able to be done with plugins I believe. Of course you could try campaigning Kovid via a ticket for a "widget plugin" mechanism to allow such a panel to be added to the gui, perhaps others have ideas for how that could be used...
Only other ideas I have are:
(1) I could update the status bar text for the tooltip of that button with some kind of summary of settings. However that still requires moving the mouse over the button.
(2) Adding an additional keyboard shortcut action to the plugin which displays that information for you. Directly in the statusbar would be easiest, and no windows to close. Alternatively "maybe" the shortcut could pop-open the toolbar button as though you had mouse clicked on it, then you hit esc to close it. I don't know if the latter is technically possible but I would assume it is. Of course it also relies on getting a keyboard shortcuts to work for you |
Please do not worry about that.
It was just an idle suggestion. There are much more pressing (and potentially more useful) issues on the wishlist from other users.
I am extremely happy with the plugin
as it is. You can't replace core Calibre functionality (like customizable floating toolbars, or, even better, context driven customizable statusbar) with a plugin.
(*) understand "Even more annoying to non-subscribers" interface. ;-)