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Originally Posted by kaufman
Love the new release. The best app on my phone continues to get even better. Only thing left is "more details in the list view with large covers" and its perfect.  |
I am looking at how to do that. It isn't at all straightforward. I am almost certainly pushing it to the next cycle.
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1) The "fast upgrade" took about 30 minutes. Would it be possible to show the book x of y process here as well as in the notification? Might be useful.
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Hmmmm....
All that time had to be in the copying of the date changed column to the updated column. In my testing that took less than 10ms/book, so I expected the upgrade to run at 100 books/second. Apparently I am wrong. Unfortunately I don't see any way around it except leaving the value empty, which would mean that all existing books would have a null creation date.
There is no way to provide a progress bar because the changes are all done internally by the DB manager when the DB is opened.
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2) For book details, why do you have the "choose items to show" as a separate menu item? Wouldn't it make more sense to put it in the "Book Details" section of the settings menu? I actually used the app for several months before I found out that there was a menu to show there. The option might be more discoverable on the settings menu. also, it might be nice to have a "reset to default" option for people who mess it up by accident.
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It is there because it must have access to the correct custom column definitions, which 1) are available only in a book and 2) can change from book to book. It might be possible to add it to settings, but as it would need to be disabled if settings wasn't called from the book details screen I don't see much advantage. After all, if one taps the menu to get to settings in book details then you see the new menu line.
I suppose I could add a "comment" to the book details settings section saying that changing the fields shown in book details is done from book details. But again, given that people will almost certainly decide to change what is shown while looking at book details, that "comment" wouldn't be useful because they would see the menu line.
As for reset to default: yet again we run into the Android rule that there can be no more than three buttons on a dialog. I gnash my teeth about this all the time. I could do what I did with the read date dialog and add a "link" at the bottom to reset, but that would take real estate. Also, it isn't clear what a reset should do if different custom column setups have been encountered. Should it reset only the columns in the current book? Should it uncheck the listed columns that aren't in the current book? Or do something else?
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3) I noticed the following today right before I hid all the dates in the details screen:
Are these dates in different formats because of something I did, or because of something you did? Do you need an option for date format?
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Dates that come from calibre also come with the calibre date format that you probably set there (but perhaps not). Dates that come from CC are displayed as you see them, conditioned (I think) by the user's locale. It has been like this for some 18 months, so I don't see much call for adding another option, which would then likely turn into an option per date.