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Originally Posted by Alanon

For example, some settings don't seem to do anything, and I'm not sure if my device is at fault, or if it's because they aren't there yet.

The latter.

Originally Posted by Alanon

The brightness doesn't seem to work,

I haven't written the frontlight dialog yet, but the backend is there.

Originally Posted by Alanon

Nothing happens when I press the font button, etc.

I might wire something to this icon, for now it's supposed to just describe what the slider does: change the font size.

Originally Posted by Alanon

Also, Plato found 4077 books in my library across 453 pages (the actual number is nowhere near that, it's something like 400 at most). Without going into the complications of having to compile a database, might a simpler solution be to simply display only the supported files? I have noticed that the list included various xml files from KOReader and files from Calibre folders, dictionary files, etc. I have found that I can actually navigate through the real files reasonably well, the main issue being wading through the junk files.

I will address this problem, but I would recommend having your documents in a subdirectory of the SD card (and amend your settings.json accordingly).

Originally Posted by Alanon

It might be prudent to make the alt key a toggle. When you're trying to input a 2 or 3-digit number into the page skip, it can get annoying.

You can already lock the ALT key by pressing it twice. But what I'll do in this particular case is just to instantiate the keyboard with ALT locked.

Originally Posted by Alanon

Also, I think that the authors' list needs a way of becoming larger, just to speed up the process of finding an author.

This UI element is supposed to be called the summary bar. For now it just displays categories but I had the idea (after having read Note brèves sur l’art et la manière de ranger ses livres in Penser/Classer by Georges Perec) of having a chain of sorting orders: in case of equality, the next sorting order would have been used. In this context, the summary bar could have been used to show the unique fields according to current sorting order. And selecting one of those fields would have switched to the next sorting order, etc.

To come back to the original question: you can already grow the summary bar by swiping from the inside to the outside of the bar, and shrink it by doing the opposite.

You can also set its initial size in settings.json, e.g.:

{ "summarySize": 2 }

Originally Posted by Alanon

Finally, trying to open a larger epub file crashes Plato back to KSM. My specific files were Delphi editions of Balzac and Dickens, 31 megs and 50+ megs respectively, so it also might be due to the way the files were built? Either way, you can find the log in the spoiler below.

It looks like a case of memory exhaustion. I will try to reproduce with large ePUBs.

Originally Posted by Alanon

I realise it's early days, but I really like Plato, and with continued development, I can see it becoming my favourite software. I'm here for any and all testing that needs to be done.

Thanks.