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Originally Posted by DNSB
Odd, when I installed the beta, the Pages builtin column was created. No suggestion about it.
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The subject of the exchange was the Count Pages plugin, not the beta. The plugin does
not create any custom columns - the doco identifies the columns needed, their column types and
suggested Lookup name and Column Header values - one of which is pages/Pages ==>>
Count Pages
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Originally Posted by DNSB
As far as I can tell, you seem to be upset that calibre's new column for displaying page counts uses the same column header as the default for the page count column for the Count Pages plugin.
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"Upset" - no. "Disappointed" - yes. By the manner in which the DisabledReader's concerns have been dismissed, summarily.
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I raised the point though for the thousands of users of the plugin that are not technically minded.
Telling them to go away and just make changes to their library setup, is likely to cause greater issues.
As the development is still in beta it would be better to change the internal column name, in my view anyway. ==>> 241
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Given that you could not create a custom column with a header duplicating another column until a change to calibre was made very recently, the old saw about a tempest in a teapot comes to mind.
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Allowing users to create duplicate Column Header values does not address the concern raised above, it's a red herring wrapped up in a canard.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
As to why someone would want to do this? I lack the ability to understand why someone would want to duplicate headers. That this happened was likely due to the lack of knowledge that a column header used by a [widely used] plugin [that's been around 14½ years] for was being duplicated.
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By the beta version developers - what's a beta for, if not to identify shortcomings and oversights, and address them prior to release.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
My reason for not wanting to have builtin column header to be changeable is simply that some utilities I use use the column header and not the lookup name.
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Which 'utilities'? If you mean those shipped with calibre - then which ones? If third-party - another red herring.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
That I could, in theory, open a library database and rename all the custom columns in custom_columns to 'Custm' is not very useful.
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Ah-ah - a hypothetical hobbyhorse clutching at straws.
BR