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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
ESC is used to access the controls which are actually useable in fullscreen unlike in the old viewer. And the controls have button to toggle fullscreen. And pressing crtl+(+ or -) increases and decreases font size just as it did in the old viewer. And there is a clickable way to increase and decrease font sizes as well via the controls.
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Thank you for taking the time to respond. I should preface and amend my original response by saying the following first:
1. Thank you for creating what is still the best ebook reader out there. Better yet it's 100% free. If 4 was the only thing available I'd likely still use it over anything else on the market paid or not.
2. While I don't agree with the design choices of 4 vs. 3.48 I am merely critic with absolutely zero of the skillset required to create what you've done. I am also one user, so my input should be taken with a grain of salt, for all I know there is a large group of dedicated powerusers or perhaps pay and what you've created are the features they want. My only ask is that you continue to support a version that looks more like 3.48 as I think many users will find it more friendly and easier to learn/navigate.
I do most of my reading on a surface pro 6 running windows 10 home. I have the keyboard and pen option, but I think it's well known that both the Pro 6 and Windows 10 have bugs. When I tried using +/- the page didn't zoom in or out it was non-responsive. When I clicked on the % indicator at the bottom right it was also non-responsive. The only method I found was to ESC and dig through the setting to change the zoom level which wasn't easy or intuitive. I also couldn't figure out how to close the book cleanly either. I'm sure some of this could be fixed by just spending more time with the application, but I didn't see an upside to learning a new method when I didn't think it would be faster than the old method. I should also mention that I had an important thing I needed to read within a limited time frame and didn't have the time or patience to learn a completely new interface to read it.
With that said my suggestion for Calibre that I think would be ideal, would be to have it function like a hybrid of softwares that people already use extensively for their work or leisure, the chief among them being Adobe Reader and Netflix respectively. When you go full screen in these the method of exiting full screen is ESC or F11, which are common for browsers and many applications, so having that bring up the GUI is confusing at least to me. Additionally simply mousing brings up the clean GUI for these applications, and the GUI in them has a similar look and feel to 3.48 vs. a GUI that took up over half my screen in 4. Generally speaking full screen is really meant for people who already know the keyboard shortcuts or who will be doing mouse clicks/wheel only without any scrolling.