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I agree it definitely should run in the background - and that is a brilliant thing about Calibre.
The ONLY time anyone would see the dialog would be if the schedule COULDN'T run. That's the only time. Basic error checking.
i.e. if schedule can't run then display dialog and ask user what to do.
Most users would never ever see this dialog, but if they encountered an error (e.g. network connection error, Internet outage) they would at least know about it. At the moment Calibre (on my Mac) just pretends it did what it was supposed to and doesn't inform me that it has just encountered an error. That is BAD programming etiquette.
On several occasions I've left my hotel room thinking I've got all the latest documents on my Kindle only to discover that each one of them contains nothing but an error message.
I'm sure you can imagine how very annoying that is. It makes me want to scream!!!
You try doing a 17 hour train journey when you THINK you have all the documents on your Kindle, but it turns out all you have is the title listed. They're all listed, and nothing informed me that there was an error. Agh!!!!!
A simple error message would have courteously informed me that there'd been a problem, and I could then have done something about it.
This isn't a problem when I am at home or at the office as at both locations I have wi-fi, but if I dare to open my Macbook when I am away from those locations (on the plane, in a hotel room, at someone else's office) and the whole thing becomes a trainwreck :-(
Yes, I can solve the problem by closing down calibre, but that defeats the whole purpose of it working on schedule as if it isn't loaded it won't do what it is supposed to do when I DO have an Internet connection (which is most of the time).
It's all your fault Kovid ;-)
If Calibre wasn't so darned amazing I wouldn't care about it being the ONE piece of software I always want open ALL of the time ;-)
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