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Originally Posted by chaley
Ways to refresh it are (some of these might require the next release -- I don't remember beyond what I noted):
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I don't think doing it on every sort is a good idea, as that would affect performance by making the cache near useless. It also isn't any more discoverable than the above operations.
I considered adding a global refresh action but Kovid thought that such a thing wouldn't be any more discoverable than (for example) Select All then Edit Metadata (bulk) then OK without changing anything.
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FTR: The 'todo.txt' was created by: pressing 'O' to open the book folder, I then opened the already existing 'data' folder in File Explorer, created a todo.txt, saved it and closed File Explorer.
I tried various things to try to get the icon to show, edited a date custom column via F2, added a Tag in the MDE dialogue and saved it, edited a long text column with JobSpy's NoteView, re-sorted the list by clicking on the Author column header, moved columns and refreshed via View Manager's Refresh current view. None of them caused the icon to display.
I 'picked' on
Refresh current sort because its default shortcut is F5 which is often used as the shortcut key for 'refresh' - almost a de-facto standard like F1 for Help, F2 for Edit, etc. BTW it is not in the Sort By menu.
But all of that is moot now. It was a bad design decision on my part to use the presence of a
todo.* file in the
data folder as a signal I needed to do something… classic case of give a bloke a new hammer and everything looks like a nail. I'll put the ON page links into a #todo/To Do column, needless to say I'll put a calibre:\\show-book URL into the ON pages.
Matters arising:
- I think we need a keyboard shortcut to open the data folder, having to press 'O' to open the book folder and then poking around it to open the 'data' folder is… 'hazardous'.
- I noticed there are couple of unassigned Copy URL keyboard shortcuts for Metadata Edit that aren't in the Metadata Edit menu.
I think we need a Copy Calibre URL toolbar/menu item that consolidates the Copy links options in the book details and column right click menus. This would make them keyboard accessible (via the book list context menu) and obviate need to show the book details panel to access them.
Slightly off topic. Caste your mind back to when you made the Tag Browser keyboard accessible, I can't find the thread now, but I'm sure you provided a keyboard way of cycling through the
+,
++,
-, and
-- options, I thought it was Space, if it was, it's not working now… otherwise I've forgotten what it was
BR