Book Viewer Toolbar Icon Size

Agama · 09-01-2012, 05:20 AM

Calibre's E-book Viewer has had such useful mods recently that it is now my primary viewer. In calibre's main settings under Look and Feel there is an option to set the icon size on the toolbar but this does not seem to carry through to E-book Viewer, so is there anywhere in the viewer to change this setting? There is an icon which matches the Look and Feel icon but this switches on reference mode.

kovidgoyal · 09-01-2012, 05:51 AM

No, there's no way to set that. Why do you want to change it?

Agama · 09-01-2012, 06:27 AM

Purely cosmetic. I'd like to use small icons as I do in the library.

Chris Jones · 11-16-2013, 12:57 PM

I'd like to change the icon size in ebook-viewer as well.. And the reason is not only cosmetic but because since I have made the ebook-viewer window default to precisely the size of my 6" e-reader, I did not at first realize that some icons were hidden off-screen and only accessible if I clicked a rather unobtrusive ">>" sign at the far-right of my toolbar. And now even though I have found how I can access those icons -- including the all-important "Preferences" dialog, it's rather frustrating to go through all the clicking when you think that with smaller icons, everything would be visible and readily accessible.

I haven't tried, but I guess I could just work around this by resizing the icons using the Gimp or other and that would do the trick as long as I stick them in the right place.. and then probably have them blown away every time I upgrade..?

Isn't there a more user-friendly solution..?

More generally, is there a "theme-ing" solution of sorts that would make it possible to replace all the calibre icons by something else.. In my case more android-like, such as is the current fashion in gnome-gtk applications..?

theducks · 11-16-2013, 03:35 PM

I don't know if the viewer uses the same icon rules?
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cust...ates-et-cetera

I have a smaller dimension set used in the Tag browser installed there

Chris Jones · 11-16-2013, 07:40 PM

Thanks.. I resized all the standard icons to 50% of their original size... copying the output to ~/.config/calibre/resources/images... I bounced calibre but this didn't make any difference either on the calibre main toolbar or the viewer's. Apparently the code does load the custom icons but it just scales them up to the same display size as the standard ones.

No big deal..

DoctorOhh · 11-17-2013, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Jones

I'd like to change the icon size in ebook-viewer as well.. And the reason is not only cosmetic but because since I have made the ebook-viewer window default to precisely the size of my 6" e-reader, I did not at first realize that some icons were hidden off-screen and only accessible if I clicked a rather unobtrusive ">>" sign at the far-right of my toolbar.
...~~~...
Isn't there a more user-friendly solution..?

Until you mentioned the icons going off of the screen I wouldn't have thought it possible when mimicking a 6 inch reader. Then I realized you must have your icons across the top. If you drag the icon bar to the left side of the book you won't run into icons disappearing from the viewer. Or if you drag the icons below or above the search bar it may or may not work for you.

09-01-2012, 05:20 AM	#1
Agama Guru Posts: 776 Karma: 2751519 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK Device: PW2, Nexus7	Book Viewer Toolbar Icon Size Calibre's E-book Viewer has had such useful mods recently that it is now my primary viewer. In calibre's main settings under Look and Feel there is an option to set the icon size on the toolbar but this does not seem to carry through to E-book Viewer, so is there anywhere in the viewer to change this setting? There is an icon which matches the Look and Feel icon but this switches on reference mode.

11-16-2013, 12:57 PM	#4
Chris Jones Addict Posts: 242 Karma: 37089 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: none	Me too... I'd like to change the icon size in ebook-viewer as well.. And the reason is not only cosmetic but because since I have made the ebook-viewer window default to precisely the size of my 6" e-reader, I did not at first realize that some icons were hidden off-screen and only accessible if I clicked a rather unobtrusive ">>" sign at the far-right of my toolbar. And now even though I have found how I can access those icons -- including the all-important "Preferences" dialog, it's rather frustrating to go through all the clicking when you think that with smaller icons, everything would be visible and readily accessible. I haven't tried, but I guess I could just work around this by resizing the icons using the Gimp or other and that would do the trick as long as I stick them in the right place.. and then probably have them blown away every time I upgrade..? Isn't there a more user-friendly solution..? More generally, is there a "theme-ing" solution of sorts that would make it possible to replace all the calibre icons by something else.. In my case more android-like, such as is the current fashion in gnome-gtk applications..?

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09-01-2012, 05:51 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,598 Karma: 28548962 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No, there's no way to set that. Why do you want to change it?

09-01-2012, 06:27 AM	#3
Agama Guru Posts: 776 Karma: 2751519 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK Device: PW2, Nexus7	Purely cosmetic. I'd like to use small icons as I do in the library.

11-16-2013, 03:35 PM	#5
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,241 Karma: 61360164 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I don't know if the viewer uses the same icon rules? http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cust...ates-et-cetera I have a smaller dimension set used in the Tag browser installed there

11-16-2013, 07:40 PM	#6
Chris Jones Addict Posts: 242 Karma: 37089 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: none	Thanks.. I resized all the standard icons to 50% of their original size... copying the output to ~/.config/calibre/resources/images... I bounced calibre but this didn't make any difference either on the calibre main toolbar or the viewer's. Apparently the code does load the custom icons but it just scales them up to the same display size as the standard ones. No big deal..