[rracoon01]

I am assuming this idea is for a plugin, if not please someone point me in the right direction.

I have several batch files that manipulate my calibre DB via the command line interface. I use them frequently and wish I could simply launch them from within Calibre instead of having to jump out, navigate to where they are located (no I don't want them on my desktop) and launch them.

Has anyone done a plugin to put an icon on the toolbar for launching external batch files. I don't see the need for one icon for each batch file, but maybe an icon with a browser to locate an external file (could even be .exe or whatever) and a remembered list of recently launched programs.

Since Calibre launches background jobs all the time, this does not seem like it would be too difficult. I have forgotten most of all the programming skills I ever had (very old system programmer) and have no Python experience at all so I don't know where to start. I suppose I could try if someone would point me in the right direction.

Thoughts anyone?