Beta testers for calibre 9 needed

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

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Q. should books translated by Anat Admati take up shelf space?

I say no - bookshelves are not an index/catalogue.

In the example shown Anat Admati [translator] is the third name in the list of 'Authors' for the book "Rios De Londres"

BR

Ah that, fixed in the master https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...48629de28706a1

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Are your pagecounts finished calculating? I had some freeze related to that. In general bookshelf view definitely a bit slower too, not sure what bottleneck is.

The last beta a introduced a fix to unlock frozen pending pages count queue case, but that lead to make freeze the gui if the queue is too important (sorry on my part because I insited to solve it and discovered the resulting issue very later )
but NOW, fixed in master https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...a1ca1eb61ee0d8

In waiting a new build, the only thing I can suggest is open Calibre in background and wait that the entire library is scanned.

[kovidgoyal]

There is a restore default button at the bottom right but IIRC it restored defaults for the full look & feel section. As for shelf height default, simply set it to the minimum value allowed and it will use automatic.

I dont see how animation could affect scroll speed, animation is not trigerred when scrolling only when the mouse is moved.

[un_pogaz]

> jackie_w do a suggestion

*me, waiting to kovid answer it*

> kovid, send me back the request

oh shit *panic*

Yes, is feasible to let you control the opacity of the thumbnails and control their "ghostly" effect, so that can have a fully opaque one.
Work on that.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

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@BR: There already exist shortcuts to toggle grid/shelf back to list. A shortcut to toggle list makes no sense as there is no list view in layout and it cant be "toggled" only "switched to". If you have removed the shortcuts for grid/shelf then resumably you arent going to be using them so I dont see how a list view shortcut is needed in that scenario.

@Kovid - I guess it is perception thing.

For me List, Shelf, and Grid are alternative presentations of the library catalogue — i.e.they have equal status. And one of them must be active at all times. I don't want to hide the Grid or Shelf views, I want to show (switch to) the List view.

OTOH the Tag browser, Cover browser, Book details, and Quickview windows can be shown and hidden independently of one another, irrespective of which library catalogue view is in use.

There is a shortcut in the Miscellaneous group - Focus the book list - the default sequence is Shift+Esc. I don't know what it's meant to do - but as far as I can tell it does nothing. I think it was created when the Give the Tag browser keyboard focus shortcut was implemented - but that shortcut is a toggle (it has no default), so there's no need for a Focus the book list shortcut… maybe it can be given a purpose… Show the book list

I would typically go into Grid view (and now maybe Shelf view) via the clicking the relevant button when I'm waiting for a CSR on the phone, or a slow talking heads download etc.

BR

[un_pogaz]

Bug report:
Using a GPM with a return statement in a template of the bookshelf emblem rules (and only here), Calibre crash when redering the view (but not imediatly, you need to exit the preference dialog).
The mear fact of writing this is enough:

program: return ''

No exception, no popup dialog, no stacktrace, the only warning I have is this log:

QBackingStore::endPaint() called with active painter; did you forget to destroy it or call QPainter::end() on it?

Arch linux

@chaley if you follow this, probably for you.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I suspect we would need @chaley, the custom columns founder and grand sorcerer, to inspect the bottlenecks. But it looks to me like he has retired.

@chaley has retired? That's not good. He really knows his stuff and was a big help around here. Anway way we can convince him to unretire?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

> jackie_w do a suggestion

*me, waiting to kovid answer it*

> kovid, send me back the request

oh shit *panic*

Yes, is feasible to let you control the opacity of the thumbnails and control their "ghostly" effect, so that can have a fully opaque one.
Work on that.

The problem is that the cover is being dulled way too much. When I have it set to no text and to show the full cover, the covers can be rather dark and dull and hard to read. That's because the colors are being muted. I'd like to see how it looks with the cover colors not touched at all.

I have another bug to fix in Bookshelf view. When I click Group by and select Hyphen, it shows when the books with hyphens start, but not when they end.

This snip shows the bug and shows the dull muted colors that need fixing. Have a look at the last cover on the lower right. It's unreadable.

[JSWolf]

I've another really fun bug.

As you can see i f the screen grab in the previous post, there is no text on the covers. But when I go to add the text back, it doesn't display. I don't know how to get it to display. I added in {title} for line 1 and {author} for line 2 like I previously had and it won't work.o once you remove both line 1 & 2, you can't add them back. Also, we should be able to specify what color we want the text on the covers.

Now for another bug. Wen I have disabled the hover animation, it's actually more choppy and slower then setting it to 100 milliseconds.

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The problem is that the cover is being dulled way too much. When I have it set to no text and to show the full cover, the covers can be rather dark and dull and hard to read. That's because the colors are being muted. I'd like to see how it looks with the cover colors not touched at all.

I have another bug to fix in Bookshelf view. When I click Group by and select Hyphen, it shows when the books with hyphens start, but not when they end.

This snip shows the bug and shows the dull muted colors that need fixing. Have a look at the last cover on the lower right. It's unreadable.
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For the cover, is not a bug, it work as indented:
The cover is draw with a transparency and a backround color corresponding at the dominant color of the cover. If the colors are dull and muted, is because the cover, and so it dominant color, is very dark.

But, as requested by @jackie_w, you can now control the opacity of the thumbnail cover https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...d3ee6d101067fb

Else, for your Hyphen Group by, the group end end when a new divider appear, so if you group is very long, the next divider could not appear on the screen.

And for this issue that re-adding a template after removed both, you seem not the only one to encouter it, I will check that.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

Else, for your Hyphen Group by, the group end end when a new divider appear, so if you group is very long, the next divider could not appear on the screen.

It doesn't have to appear on the same screen as showing when the hyphen starts. But it should show when the hyphen stops. Otherwise, there's no way to know which books don't have hyphenation. So this really does need to be fixed.

The color of the text on the covers is in different color and doesn't always work. We have white text and black text. We should be allowed to change the text colors as we see fit. And it would be a good idea to allow optional bolding of the text. As you see, the text in the first book on the left is not very readable. The screen grab I did turns out to be larger when what's on screen. So it's easier to read then what I am seeing in calibre. And even then, unless your resolution was the same as mine or larger, you'd be able to better read the text.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

Yes, is feasible to let you control the opacity of the thumbnails and control their "ghostly" effect, so that can have a fully opaque one.
Work on that.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The problem is that the cover is being dulled way too much. When I have it set to no text and to show the full cover, the covers can be rather dark and dull and hard to read. That's because the colors are being muted. I'd like to see how it looks with the cover colors not touched at all.

<snip>

This snip shows the bug and shows the dull muted colors that need fixing. Have a look at the last cover on the lower right. It's unreadable.

Unless I misunderstood @un_pogaz has already said he'll look at allowing customisation of opacity/transparency. No need to push so aggressively. Let's just be patient, shall we?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Unless I misunderstood @un_pogaz has already said he'll look at allowing customisation of opacity/transparency. No need to push so aggressively. Let's just be patient, shall we?

I must have missed that. Thanks.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DNSB

One item I would like to see is adding a Default button on the cover grid and bookshelf views to reset all the selections to the "factory" default.

If these buttons are just for that kind of view. AFAIK Calibre mostly uses the Nuke the Config folder. It would be nice to be able to clean-slate just a the current section: Editor, viewer, shelf,...

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

Bug report:
Using a GPM with a return statement in a template of the bookshelf emblem rules (and only here), Calibre crash when redering the view (but not imediatly, you need to exit the preference dialog).

Try this https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...5303919106bc02

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Unless I misunderstood @un_pogaz has already said he'll look at allowing customisation of opacity/transparency. No need to push so aggressively. Let's just be patient, shall we?

is done https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...d3ee6d101067fb