Beta test for new server interface

[ovillo]

This is a massive upgrade, great job!

i have two suggestions:

1. A high-contrast theme for eink readers. No gradients, no shadows, pure black and white with small grays.

2. Configurable which columns are shown on the sidebar. I have a lot of metadata, not all of them useful for searches. It gets crowded.

I could contribute css for the high contrast version, but am unsure how to do that as my coding skills beyond CSS are minimal.

[nqk]

Thank you Kovid for being patient with me. . I've been annoying.

I like the series cover stacking together. Look really nice.

But the series with 2 books still shows only one cover.

This is minor.

PS: I'm using the content server on my phone, not only testing for fun.

[kovidgoyal]

@nqk: yes it needs at least 3 covers IIRC. You'd have to ask Exhen the original developer why that is.

@ovillo: I doubt this interface would be useable on eink regardless of theme, for eink use the mobile view which you can get via adding /mobile to the server URL. ANd you can already configurethe columns in the sidebar via settings (the last item in the sidebar)

[ovillo]

Disagree!
I actually managed to create a (terribly hand-mangled) version of the html had posted in a PR to work with e-ink. Most of the work was just changing colours to increase contrast. It works super well in my Boox

https://github.com/wordsandpics/eink-ccs

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[kovidgoyal]

You are welcome to try but it wont be easy and its not something I am interested in since the /mobile interface exists for this purpose.

[ovillo]

Fair enough, thanks.
I don't suppose there's a way of loading a user stylesheed into index-generated without editing the html itself?

[kovidgoyal]

There is no HTML or CSS it's all programmatically generated from JS.

[ovillo]

Thanks

[Metapath]

Noted 2 unhandled exceptions today while adding books to the library using the beta server software (.104).
My network was exceptionally slow for unrelated reasons. I clicked the + icon to add books and dropped 3 new books on the UI window. It took longer than usual. The “green line” progress bar had completed, but the “open” button for each book had not yet appeared. Because I thought the addition had competed, I then clicked Browse/Authors and got an Unhandled Exception.

TypeError: can't access property "getElementsByTagName", w is undefined
Error at http://192.168.0.53:9096/:37964:17
Traceback (most recent call last): progress_callback@http://192.168.0.53:9096/:6178:32 on_progress@http://192.168.0.53:9096/:38116:37 update_status_widget@http://192.168.0.53:9096/:37964:17

After closing the error message, the following Unhandled Exception appeared (seemed that it might have been hidden by the above error):

TypeError: can't access property "firstChild", node is undefined
Error at http://192.168.0.53:9096/:7205:24
Traceback (most recent call last): ρσ_anonfunc@http://192.168.0.53:9096/:6247:38 complete_callback@http://192.168.0.53:9096/:6215:28 on_complete@http://192.168.0.53:9096/:38228:18 clear@http://192.168.0.53:9096/:7205:24

This is unlikely to be encountered when the network is fast, but all Exceptions should be handled, IMHO.

Thanks again for such a major upgrade!

[kovidgoyal]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...fa2fcd52e6f83e

[Metapath]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...fa2fcd52e6f83e

Thanks again for a quick fix!

I don't suppose my favorite peeve might ever get addressed:
Browse / Authors
Browse / Series
How about adding Browse / Title ?

If I do a Search and type Little Women, I get 383 hits.
If I add quotes and Search "Little Women", I get 10 hits. (Nice that I no longer get the irksome "Replace double quotes with single quotes?" prompt, thanks for that.)
I'd really like a Browse / Title and just type Little Women and get exactly that book.
Well, maybe not "Browse / Title", maybe Search Title?

[kovidgoyal]

No if you want to search for an exact phrase you need to use quotes.

[Metapath]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No if you want to search for an exact phrase you need to use quotes.

It's just that we have Title search in the calibre desktop UI (Advanced search), so it would be nice for the server UI to provide the same functionality.

I can live with quotes (started programming almost 50 years ago), but so many of the youngsters I talk to don't understand. They think it's silly to have to add them. Oh well, thanks anyway.

[kovidgoyal]

Server and GUI search functionality is identical. Any search you do in the GUI you can do in the server.