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Originally Posted by chaley
@rchiav: Thank you for your thought-provoking comments. Being forced to think about something can be painful. 
I had a similar set of exchanges when I asked about how to make calibre preserve my preferred author name ordering (last, first) when generating author_sort. To distill the responses harsher than they were, what I was told is that calibre works the way the developers want it to work, and why should they take time to build something of no interest to them? This attitude is eminently reasonable. Why should someone donate time and effort for something s/he won't use? Well, the problem annoyed me enough where I decided to look into fixing it. Being semi-retired (and soon fully retired) I had both the time and the desire to learn something new. (If you are curious about who I am, this is my home page.) Perhaps you are in the same situation, having desire, time and inclination. |
I've gotten the same impression that the software works the way specific people want it to work and the answer to most questions seems to be to change how others think to conform to the software. Like you said, that is understandable, but it's also a shame that there's not more of a focus on accommodating the masses and how people who aren't developers think and work.
I'll look into what the plugin framework looks like and see if there's something I can do there. If that doesn't fit the bill, it looks like there are other options where I could create wrappers for a lot of the functionality and create a separate GUI.