Thread: IF you could design the user interface for the next Kobo Firmware
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Old 06-10-2013, 01:02 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by theonna View Post
It is not funny. Good thing is that with new firmware, Kobo( not Calibre) takes 20min to process 1.8K books, it took it about 50 min before. So nothing stellar, but I am happy it has been improved. As far as taking time to process books for shelves with Calibre, it is still not funny, because Calibre is the only way to do it, because there is no way you can do 1.8K manually. I much rather not even use Calibre at all. And I did not need to use Calibre with any other reader, just may be for occasional conversion.
You don't need calibre for this either. In fact, by choosing the extended driver, you have specifically chosen to use an unsupported feature of the reader (sideloading kepubs). The rest, shelves or even just getting books on the devices, calibre is the simplest way to do it as it is for a lot of the other readers.
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For user interface-
I wish to have full control over line height, margins and top and bottom status lines. Don't point to Adobe for orphans and widows, just fix it already.
The problem is that everyone disagrees over whether these are bugs or not. As far as I can tell, the line height, orphans and widows and margins seem to be working according to the CSS and epub specs. Doing something else would get complaints in other ways. About the only one I agree on, is that the line height choices they have are wrong. The range should be shifted so that the smallest is at the most 1.0.

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Full user control over online updates, synchronization, tile placement and content of the home screen.
File manager. File Manager. File Manager!!!!!
May be if I repeat it often enough, someone will actually listen.
As to the status line and other things, Kobo are the designers of the software, and have decided that is the way to go. Making a suggesting is reasonable, but demanding is not. But, the updates I definitely agree with. Telling me there is an update with a "now or later prompt" is a reasonable thing. FW2.6.1 give me a lot more control over the home screen than I had before. Of course it could it be improved, and maybe it will. I'm not commenting on the file manager.

But, how do you not have full control over synchronization? It only happens when you trigger it: push the button or connect to the PC and use the desktop app. You don't want to synchonize, then don't. And from the fact you are sideloading books so many books, it doesn't sound like you need to sync at all.
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