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Originally Posted by un_pogaz
I can see the use, but I'm not sure that it will be good to be natively in Calibre, better a plugin. I don't found that it will fit to Calibre. Or maybe make this popup system off by default.
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Read my response to the same suggestion from PeterT
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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Originally Posted by PeterT
Maybe it just needs a plugin developed to check and post a notification?
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If you mean a plugin hosted here, how many of the 2.8m active users would know it existed, and how many of them would install it.
IMO be lucky if it was .1%, probably closer to .01%.
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And the .01% (~300) who did install it, are not the people the suggestion is targeting.
The users who would install an optional plugin, are the users we see here, who likely keep one eye on the commit list at github, and the other on the bug reports and enhancement requests at launchpad etc. They don't need a notification thingamabob -- they already know what's happening in the calibre space.
And I knowingly, wittingly, deliberately avoided the use of 'popup', 'toast', etc, because they are intrusive.
What I suggested is a non-removable button in the status bar that 'glows' when there's something new. If I were implementing my suggestion, I'd probably change the appearance of a button that already exists, this one ==>> "calibre 9.2.1 created by Kovid Goyal...", I'd bold it or change its colour if there are unread messages.
BR