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Originally Posted by chaley

Thanks.
At the moment that context menu shouldn't be fully removed. It is possible to 'hide' all categories in the tag browser, resulting in an empty space. At that point the only way to show some category is to go to Preferences / Look & feel / Tag browser and check at least one category. The context menu for that category will have the "Show category" context menu where you can select other categories.

What I suggested was to move the three items in the whitespace context menu into the Configuration menu, the first of which would be Show category like so:



If all categories were already shown there'd be no Show category flyout menu and maybe it could be greyed out. Maybe I'm missing something.

Originally Posted by chaley

I think the other two, Change subcategorization scheme and Expand, could be removed. I'm not yet convinced it is worth the trouble or resulting confusion.

So removing this clutter is worth annoying users that expect to find it there? It is there by default, no toolbar or context menu adaptation necessary, so I expect that many people do use it.
This I don't agree with. It needs to be somewhere by default so that a user can be directed to it. Between enhancement requests and forum posts, I think we get a question weekly about how to make a catalog, in particular CSV ones. Having "All GUI actions" somewhere by default would solve that problem.

If a user removes the Convert books tools from the toolbars/menus and uses a shortcut to Convert books then they have no means to get at Create catalogue - who might do that, me for a start.

Calibre has lots of features that don't have a 'home', Polish boots, Browse annotations, Open book folder, Mark books to name a few. I fail to see any inherent connection between converting file formats and creating a list of books.

Originally Posted by chaley

I'll think further, but one fundamental rule for me is that something that is "there by default" today must still be "there by default" tomorrow, not requiring the user to add an action to something. Moving things around might be reasonable but would incure a cost for everyone used to where the "thing" is now. Of course, Kovid would make the final decision on any of this.

I am pretty sure I have a much higher tolerance to UI changes than most people, another ramification of getting old I guess

You didn't respond to my suggestion of putting the Tag browser Search bar at the top of the TB window and leaving the Configuration button at the bottom - roughly:



Would then be similar to the main window - search bar at top, configure at bottom.

BR