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Originally Posted by chaley
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Q. Are the outer branch range names fixed or are they determined by how many.
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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. |
The Tag browser partitioning uses first letter. In this instance that would be inappropriate because there are fewer items, the values are known, and they are relatively static; I would much prefer first letter ranges so that all the 'C's etc are in the same group, e.g. for English
A - B
C - E
F - O
P - S
T - Z
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- Use '→' rather than '-' in the outer branch names e.g. Add books→Choose library
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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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My suggestion to use first letter ranges would resolve this issue.
Re plugins, this is what I have right now:
If I add a plugin that list will collapse to this,
If I then remove it will expand again - I recognise it's a border line case, and that most user will have more than 9 plugins installed, but for the minimalists on on the border it is irritating. Maybe a Tweak could be provided to prevent that happening, e.g.
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Collapse AA's list of plugins if there are more than N plugins.
I'd set N to 1.
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- Include all the Preference panels as per the lower section of the Preferences drop down menu:
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It already does that in the menu. clicking on/selecting "Preferences"
"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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That's what threw me. So, in my mind's eye I'll relabel that section as
chaley's tool-belt 
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- Add another section - Libraries.
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Wouldn't this be more-or-less the same thing you get by using "Choose library"?
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More or less, as in select Choose library, and if the library one wants isn't in Choose library's shortlist, select Quick switch.
Breaking news: I removed the option to put the AA button in the status bar (which I didn't use). When I use my Ctrl+Alt+A shortcut now, AA pops up in the top right corner rather than the bottom left corner… which I much prefer. The submenus don't flyout backwards, and notifications don't pop-over the AA menu.
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