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Kythe42 · 11-08-2019, 12:33 PM

Thank you, Kovid, for re-adding the side toolbar. It's not 100% the same as the previous one, but I'm not sure that anything that's missing is anything that I actually used.

Will it be possible to get the top toolbar added back as an option as well in a future version? As I stated as feedback in a previous version, the ability to add the book position to the page header doesn't do me much good if I can't actually click on it and type in the book position. I realize that this has been added as an option in the control menu, but it takes two clicks to get to it which is very inconvenient when you want to quickly switch back and forth between two or more positions. It would also be nice to be able to have the search box permanently docked. I think overall I just also really liked having the top toolbar there to frame things. It just feels more comfortable for my eyes somehow.

Regarding the headers/footers themselves, would it be possible to be able to set the font size for them in a future version? They're too small as they currently are.

I find that I'm still really struggling with the new control and preference menus hurting my eyes within a few seconds making it extremely difficult to use them. Despite the pain that it's causing me, I'm trying to look back and forth between these menus on the different versions to try to pinpoint what I think might be the problem for me. It's difficult to be certain, but I think what might be hurting my eyes about these new menus is that things are too large. I'm not sure the actual text is any larger, but the buttons, tabs, or whatever you want to call them that the text is in are definitely larger in the new version.

Then on top of them feeling too large, they all feel really crowded and squished together being contained within the confines of the viewer, whereas in the previous viewer it was a popup menu that could be resized to a larger size than what I had the viewer itself set as. I realize people's mileage may vary on this depending on what size they tend to have the viewer window set as, but I have mine set at a comfortable size for me for the purposes of reading which is the full vertical length of my screen, but less than half the width of my screen.

As I said, this is my best guess for why the menus on the new viewer hurt my eyes, but this sort of thing can really be subject to trial and error to figure it out.

Thanks for your continued work on this project. I hope my feedback has been helpful.

11-08-2019, 12:33 PM	#1
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	4.3 viewer feedback. Thank you, Kovid, for re-adding the side toolbar. It's not 100% the same as the previous one, but I'm not sure that anything that's missing is anything that I actually used. Will it be possible to get the top toolbar added back as an option as well in a future version? As I stated as feedback in a previous version, the ability to add the book position to the page header doesn't do me much good if I can't actually click on it and type in the book position. I realize that this has been added as an option in the control menu, but it takes two clicks to get to it which is very inconvenient when you want to quickly switch back and forth between two or more positions. It would also be nice to be able to have the search box permanently docked. I think overall I just also really liked having the top toolbar there to frame things. It just feels more comfortable for my eyes somehow. Regarding the headers/footers themselves, would it be possible to be able to set the font size for them in a future version? They're too small as they currently are. I find that I'm still really struggling with the new control and preference menus hurting my eyes within a few seconds making it extremely difficult to use them. Despite the pain that it's causing me, I'm trying to look back and forth between these menus on the different versions to try to pinpoint what I think might be the problem for me. It's difficult to be certain, but I think what might be hurting my eyes about these new menus is that things are too large. I'm not sure the actual text is any larger, but the buttons, tabs, or whatever you want to call them that the text is in are definitely larger in the new version. Then on top of them feeling too large, they all feel really crowded and squished together being contained within the confines of the viewer, whereas in the previous viewer it was a popup menu that could be resized to a larger size than what I had the viewer itself set as. I realize people's mileage may vary on this depending on what size they tend to have the viewer window set as, but I have mine set at a comfortable size for me for the purposes of reading which is the full vertical length of my screen, but less than half the width of my screen. As I said, this is my best guess for why the menus on the new viewer hurt my eyes, but this sort of thing can really be subject to trial and error to figure it out. Thanks for your continued work on this project. I hope my feedback has been helpful.