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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
My vision for calibre is that it is a tool for people that are serious about maintaining a collection of personal document/books/etc. I am not trying to compete with tools designed purely for throwaway content consumption. This probably means that calibre is never going to be universally used, and for people like us, that know what calibre is capable of, that is a shame, but I believe that there are more than enough people in the world for whom calibre will remain an excellent value proposition.
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Which perfectly answers the question I put out there a few posts ago, and is why any threads discussing simplifying the UI will meet the same fate that every such thread has met in the past.
I was willing to add some support to people wanting to explore options but I'm not going to bang my head against a brick wall about it. It is your product and your vision and a valid position to take, so now we have an official response we can point to when it comes up again.
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@kiwidude: Your main gripe is about author sorting. I agree that it is a pain if you are not happy with the calibre default. But really, are people that only want to get book, send to device going to care about how author names are sorted?
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Obviously my posts were too long and poorly explained if that was the only conclusion you drew
. Yes author sorting is one issue, metadata plugboards are another. Both are far more easily resolved for the user by a simple question at startup than forcing them to spend hours of frustration and googling. They come up every week in the forums - and that is just from those who can be bothered to do so.
There are other settings I would have preferred to have seen highlighted up front, but then my opinion will be coloured of course by the defaults that I suggest people change every time I recommend calibre to someone to install.
Anyways, not going to flog a dead horse - as I said previously I do remember just how steep the calibre learning curve was for me and being a developer I had a more advantageous starting point yet still struggled. Perhaps if I had started with a Sony device and liked Kovid's default settings it would have been easier.