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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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Just curious how you deal with not knowing what options are available on calibre's drop-down menus (on the main menu) before you click them?
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Perhaps I wasn't clear. My biggest issue with the UI is that even after you've become experienced with the plugin, you don't know the current
state of the option without opening the menu. This adds an extra step when you first use the plugin in a particular editing session. It is quite unsafe to click the button without first opening the menu to check the current state. This, added to the fact that you have no confirmation that you've actually clicked accurately enough on the menu to toggle the state rather than missing slightly and just collapsing the menu with no change, makes the UI design unnecessarily difficult to use reliably.
A visible control in the main dialog would be far better design. That way every time you open the dialog you can clearly see the current state of operation. You would also have reliable visible indication that you actually toggled the current setting.
A visible control in the main UI is the method used by calibre's editor's Find & Replace panel so such UI would be quite consistent with other established calibre UI.