[GUI Plugin] Quick Preferences

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by davidfor

For my curiosity, which sources are you using for covers?

It's been a while since I fixed a bunch of covers all at once, the books I've imported lately either already had good covers, had internal images I used, or were so abstract that no picture would make any sense anyway or at least wouldn't have a cover in an external source.

The sources I remember getting best covers from (in no particular order) are amazon, google, and overdrive. Usually I see covers from all of those, and then select the best one. A lot of times the first source to return a cover provides a cover not much better than a scan of a plain text cover that could have been generated by the Generate Cover plugin; I'm looking for something with a picture in it, and if the text isn't big and clear, I'll crop it and use Generate Cover using the cropped image.

I don't remember if I grabbed the overdrive covers from the web browser or if the metadata plugin was able to get them, but overdrive covers are usually pretty good. I think I asked a while ago if I could import covers from the device's cover cache -- and if I did, it would probably be to get the overdrive cover from a book I just picked up.

I don't know if I've ever tried covers from kobo. I don't seem to have smashwords installed (fixed now). I'll have to try those.

[compurandom]

Just checked. Found a gutenberg book I added recently that didn't have a cover.
Typically I'd use an image from inside the book, but for testing purposes, I just checked what was available for it.

Amazon had a boring plain text cover.
Goodreads had an ugly fuzzy cover with a picture that was out of focused or pixelated.
Google and fantastic fiction pulled different covers that were just headshots of the author with a title.

And as you suggested, kobo books had the best cover.
(Just checked, gutenberg didn't include any useful pictures in this book.)

[davidfor]

I have just released version 1.5.0 of the plugin. The changes in the release are:

• New: Add function to change enabled Metadata download sources.
• New: Make translatable.

These changes were in the beta I released last month.

Calibre will announce the update in the next hour or so. If there are any issues, please report them here.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I have just released version 1.5.0 of the plugin.

Very nice! thanks!

Minor constructive criticisms:

The new pane doesn't save column widths.

It would be nice (I think) if the regex pattern and enabled sources columns were marked to soak up unused column width.

[dunhill]

To revive the thread.
I leave the complement translated into Spanish

[georgemk]

Error when trying to use the "Customise" option when using Calibre 6 beta

calibre, version 5.99.10
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:type object 'Qt' has no attribute 'ItemFlags'

calibre 5.99.10* embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19043 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19043')
Python 3.10.1
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19043', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: en_GB
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (10, 0, 2) && Find Duplicates (1, 9, 5) && Kobo Books (1, 9, 2) && Obok DeDRM (10, 0, 0) && Quality Check (1, 12, 0) && Quick Preferences (1, 5, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.action", line 186, in show_configuration
File "C:\Users\george\github\calibre\src\calibre\custom ize\__init__.py", line 166, in do_user_config
File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.__init__", line 62, in config_widget
File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.config", line 476, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.config", line 134, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.config", line 154, in populate_table
File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.config", line 166, in populate_table_row
File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.common_util s", line 267, in __init__
AttributeError: type object 'Qt' has no attribute 'ItemFlags'

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by georgemk

Error when trying to use the "Customise" option when using Calibre 6 beta

same here :\

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

same here :\

I will take a look at this tomorrow, have been working through the older plugins first in getting some updates…

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

I will take a look at this tomorrow, have been working through the older plugins first in getting some updates…

[georgemk]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

I will take a look at this tomorrow, have been working through the older plugins first in getting some updates…

Thank you Kiwidude for stepping back into the fray

[kiwidude]

Changes in this release:

• New: Include Russian translations
• Fix: Qt incompatibility issues

Thanks for the report of the problem above.

[georgemk]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Changes in this release:

• New: Include Russian translations
• Fix: Qt incompatibility issues

Thanks for the report of the problem above.

Thanks for the fix but I've broke it again! Sorry. Within the Customise Plug-in dialogue box when I click on the button "Keyboard Shortcuts" this error occurs

calibre, version 6.4.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:KeyboardConfigDialog.__init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'title'

calibre 6.4  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19043')
Python 3.10.1
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19043', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: en_GB
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (10, 0, 2) && Find Duplicates (1, 9, 7) && KePub Metadata Reader (3, 4, 3) && KePub Metadata Writer (3, 4, 3) && Kobo Books (1, 9, 2) && Kobo Utilities (2, 16, 6) && KoboTouchExtended (3, 6, 3) && Obok DeDRM (10, 0, 3) && Quality Check (1, 12, 0) && Quick Preferences (1, 6, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.quick_preferences.config", line 664, in edit_shortcuts
TypeError: KeyboardConfigDialog.__init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'title'

[kiwidude]

Changes in this release:

• Fix: Keyboard shortcuts dialog

There is always one button you forget to press when testing... thanks georgemk for the feedback

[georgemk]

Thanks @Kiwidude, fix works and I've yet to find a new break.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by georgemk

Thanks @Kiwidude, fix works and I've yet to find a new break.

I confirm, thanks!