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Old 06-03-2010, 05:07 AM   #265
Jim Chapman
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Thankyou for the rapid feedback. To your points:
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1) Is the only viewing mode now full-screen?
Yes. Providing Windowed and Full-Screen mode was complicated, and actually Windowed mode doesn't add much value (particularly as you can now put a battery and clock indicator onto the bottom left of the page).
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2) Is there no longer a way to override a book's justification attribute? I see an option not to force justification, but nothing that lets me force left-justify. This jumped out at me right away, as the book I'm reading is apparently justified in the original file, which I'd never noticed as I had Freda v.1 set to override to *not* justify. That was a feature in v. 1 that I really liked. I cannot stand clunky justification on a small screen, so I had to reconvert the file in Calibre to get rid of the justification. I also had to remove the book from the Freda library and add the new conversion back in, before Freda displayed it unjustified. ("Forgetting" the book didn't do it.)
I hadn't realised that my users might want to force anything other than 'justified' layout. I will change that option in v2, so you can choose between 'force left align/force right align/force justified/don't force anything (use the book layout).
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3) I was in the text, then went to the menu (shortcuts screen?). After poking around, I absentmindedly hit the Back button. That took me to an error message, and not back to where I had been. I needed to go back to the contents page to find my place again.
'Back' should undo the last 'go to' operation (i.e. moving the slider in the shortcuts screen, clicking a link or using the table of contents). I'll have a play with it and see if I can reproduce the error.
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I notice that the Library page has a space to display metadata, or at least the author. It seems that it picks up that information only after a given book has been opened. Is that correct, and by design?
Yes it is by design. When scanning a folder for books to include in the library, I do not open and examine the book metadata (because it would take too long to do). Conversely, when downloading OPDS catalogs into the library, I do pick up metadata, because it can be done without slowing things down).

Thanks for using Freda,

Jim
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