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Originally Posted by chaley
That must be a stack widget, not a grid widget. Below is a screen capture off my Afterglow 2 (my wife has my Energy Systems Pro). The top widget is a 4-wide grid widget. The bottom one is a 4-wide stack widget. The bottom one looks like yours.
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I'm feeling a little bit embarrassed right now. Of course you're right, it was a stack widget on my eBook reader
I just checked the cover shape "Square box, stretch to fit". The covers now completely fill the width of the screen, but they sure are ugly
The setting "Portrait box with aspect ratio" looks way better. However, the widget still puts some millimeters of unused space around all covers. It would be great if you could draw the covers right to the edge of the widget like in square box mode, filling as much as possible of the widget.
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Originally Posted by chaley
We went through this when the widgets were being developed. The user community almost unanimously wanted no border and a transparent background. The exception was the book list widget, where reading the text was very hard without a guaranteed dark background. Another problem is that desktop widgets are severely limited in what graphics objects can be used inside them and, for those that can be used, which options are available. Add to the list that I didn't want to add yet more options that I must maintain and explain, and we end up where we are. Sorry.
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I can live with it if it was decided by the majority. It's more like a "nice to have" and would only be useful with a second widget for different covers.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Interesting idea. Of course, as soon as I add "date added" then someone will want "date updated" and "calibre date" and all the other dates. And both ascending and descending. And grouped by genre. Or only one author. And ... Fairly soon we have all of CC in a widget.  |
CC in a widget would be great
I can see your point. It's like a can of worms from a developers perspective