Keyboard shortcuts/Jump to book

silentguy · 05-03-2011, 02:08 PM

I'm currently editing a lot of books to add some metadata from a list. Sadly this list is not ordered alphabetically. This means I have to jump around in the list of relevant books a lot. Doing so I found out that I can just start typing the title to make it just to the relevant book, as long as it does not contain an existing keyboard shortcut. If one of the letters is a shortcut, I have to type the pressing shift. This usually works, but sadly shift+a and shift+n are shortcuts as well. could those two shortcuts be changed? esp. if shift+n is really the same as n (stated in the manual)

And on the topic of shortcuts, maybe they should be reorganised anyway. e.g. alt+a, alt+t, alt+p all do a "Show books by the Same ... as the current book". but to get the same series you need alt+SHIFT+s because alt+s is already used for a search which in turn can also be accessed by ctrl+f.

speakingtohe · 05-04-2011, 05:28 PM

try sorting by date added

silentguy · 05-04-2011, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

try sorting by date added

the list I have is ordered by publishing date, the files are not(adding a lot of txt by drag n drop->date added=alphabetically), to get them ordered this way I would have to set the proper date for all files, which leads me back to having to compare files to an "unordered" list.

Besides, this was only an introduction as to why I'm talking about shortcuts... Guess this Is pretty much a feature request, I just thought I'd talk about it here instead of comments in the bugtracker.

kiwidude · 05-04-2011, 06:36 PM

The "proper" solution to this imho is to offer customisable keyboard shortcuts, not to rearrange a handful for 3 million users just to meet what suits you. Don't get me wrong, I don't like some of the default shortcuts either, but until full on customisable keyboard shortcuts are made available for both all the built-in features and for plugins I would be surprised if Kovid wants to change the status quo.

As for customisable shortcuts, it is a feature request that has been on the list for a while. From what I have seen Kovid comment on this previously it is not trivial to implement due to the way Qt works. I have no doubt Kovid will get to it eventually, and I will be at the front of the queue championing the cause. As a plugin developer I don't get great joy out of every plugin having to have it's own limited keyboard shortcut configuration screen. It is a band-aid only - you can't override Calibre shortcuts, nor can you tell what shortcuts are in use when you get conflicts etc.

Unfortunately I don't have the Qt skills to confidently implement the feature myself or I would have offered to do so.

05-03-2011, 02:08 PM	#1
silentguy Connoisseur Posts: 88 Karma: 200 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Dortmund, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite (10. Generation)	Keyboard shortcuts/Jump to book I'm currently editing a lot of books to add some metadata from a list. Sadly this list is not ordered alphabetically. This means I have to jump around in the list of relevant books a lot. Doing so I found out that I can just start typing the title to make it just to the relevant book, as long as it does not contain an existing keyboard shortcut. If one of the letters is a shortcut, I have to type the pressing shift. This usually works, but sadly shift+a and shift+n are shortcuts as well. could those two shortcuts be changed? esp. if shift+n is really the same as n (stated in the manual) And on the topic of shortcuts, maybe they should be reorganised anyway. e.g. alt+a, alt+t, alt+p all do a "Show books by the Same ... as the current book". but to get the same series you need alt+SHIFT+s because alt+s is already used for a search which in turn can also be accessed by ctrl+f.

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05-04-2011, 05:28 PM	#2
speakingtohe Wizard Posts: 4,812 Karma: 26912940 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: sony PRS-T1 and T3, Kobo Mini and Aura HD, Tablet	try sorting by date added

05-04-2011, 06:36 PM	#4
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,726 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	The "proper" solution to this imho is to offer customisable keyboard shortcuts, not to rearrange a handful for 3 million users just to meet what suits you. Don't get me wrong, I don't like some of the default shortcuts either, but until full on customisable keyboard shortcuts are made available for both all the built-in features and for plugins I would be surprised if Kovid wants to change the status quo. As for customisable shortcuts, it is a feature request that has been on the list for a while. From what I have seen Kovid comment on this previously it is not trivial to implement due to the way Qt works. I have no doubt Kovid will get to it eventually, and I will be at the front of the queue championing the cause. As a plugin developer I don't get great joy out of every plugin having to have it's own limited keyboard shortcut configuration screen. It is a band-aid only - you can't override Calibre shortcuts, nor can you tell what shortcuts are in use when you get conflicts etc. Unfortunately I don't have the Qt skills to confidently implement the feature myself or I would have offered to do so.

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