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Old 02-23-2025, 12:20 PM   #2
chaley
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Q. Are the outer branch range names fixed or are they determined by how many.
It separates the two categories into groups of at most 10 items. I'm not going to make that number a setting. I'm open to not expanding a group if there aren't 10 items (only "Plugins" could fall here), but I'd want to hear from other people about it. There are arguments for both methods.
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Anyway, some suggestions
  • Use '→' rather than '-' in the outer branch names e.g. Add books→Choose library

    I have to remind myself that they not connected actions - i.e. 'Add books - Choose library' does not mean choose the library to which books will be added.
There are other places in calibre that use '-' as the separator, for example tag browser partitioning. For me, '→' is less intuitive than '-' because the arrow implies causality.
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  • Include all the Preference panels as per the lower section of the Preferences drop down menu:
It already does that in the menu. Example: clicking on/selecting "Preferences" here:

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"All actions" gives you the menu for the action if it has one, otherwise the dialog. And yes, having "Preferences", "Toolbars", and "Shortcuts" on the outer menu isn't consistent, but I like them there.
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  • Add another section - Libraries.
Wouldn't this be more-or-less the same thing you get by using "Choose library"?

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The above notwithstanding, I certainly won't object if someone wants to change how All actions works and Kovid accepts the changes.
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