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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
New Test Version
Let me know what you think.
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After playing with it a few days: me likey. Thanks! While using it, I found a few places where things are a little clunky, but those are because of underlying Calibre behaviors that I don't think you would be able to change via the plugin, eg if you have the same column in both panes, and click on the column in one pane, the focus in the other pane changes to that column as well, which meant that I had to think more carefully about which columns I wanted in which pane rather than just having the same columns in both and scrolling to the appropriate part of each pane.
The only other thing I can think of is that this is a fairly noticeable UI change for the plugin, and might confuse people who simply updated the plugin because there's a new version without paying attention to what was included. Maybe for first version or two after the change, include a little blurb at the top of the plugin UI with a link to a post here explaining the change in more detail?
Related: once I re-read the post announcing the test version more closely, the difference between automatic/manual was clear, but at first, it wasn't obvious what those meant, and the tooltip didn't clear it up very well either. I'm not sure what would be clearer, though. Maybe "Choose what details are saved when 'Save View' from plugin menu is selected. 'Automatic' views will save column order, splitter state, sort order, and column width; 'Manual' views will only save column width, and other details can only be changed via this Customize Plugin window."?
Re: the known issues:
1. The old behavior of allowing unlimited sort cols is preferred.
2. The forced-sort-on-timestamp issue might explain some sorting weirdness I've seen on occasion; if it is easy to work around, that would be great, but given that that occasional weirdness never bothered me enough to even ask about it, if it is ignored I won't mind and probably won't notice.
3. Probably ought to be fixed but not if it requires any significant effort.
Thanks again for taking a stab at this.