[GUI Plugin] Calibre Config Reports

[Comfy.n]

​ ​ ​ ​Version 4.2

​ ​ ​ ​ ​It’s high time for a major update — CCR 4.2.0 is here. As it turns out, this is quite a joint release integrating My Columns tab with the Columns Helper plugin. Here are the highlights:

​ ​ ​ ​ ​What’s new:

• My Columns tab: Columns Helper integration. Double-click any row to open the selected column setup in the Columns Helper plugin.
• My Columns tab: Added the Creation ID column. Since IDs are assigned chronologically, sorting by this column is useful.
• Plugins tab: New Back up button — select a row and back up the selected plugin. Action is also available on the context menu.
• Plugins tab: New Reinstall/Update selected plugin context menu action.
• Plugins tab: The Status button now features a centered layout and provides clear feedback on the current plugin state. On calibre 9+, it also lets you disable or enable the selected GUI plugin.
• Plugins tab: Dedicated widget to display the currently disabled GUI plugins count — its tooltip displays the list for quick lookups.
• Plugins tab: Added column Category key. This eases filtering GUI/non-GUI plugins. Example: key:gui.
• Recently updated plugins dialog: Added context menu action to install the selected plugin.
• Toolbars & Menus quick action (dialog footer): Added a dedicated widget to display the currently disabled GUI plugins count — its tooltip displays the list for quick lookups.
• New compact, clickable widgets with config dir and active library paths, à la Current Paths plugin.
• Help tab: Implemented nicer progress feedback for the backup functions (this will be noticeable when doing large backups).
• Help tab: You can now choose a short label for the CCR toolbar button.
• No more Klare Geschichte just for funsies. The German “Clear history” translation is now corrected to “Liste löschen”.

[Comfy.n]

Version 5

• Major restructuring - new context menu actions added to main plugin button on calibre toolbars & menus.

[BetterRed]

Installed CCR 5 into a fresh install of calibre portable 9.11.

Because I start CCR with a shortcut I deselected the default toolbar settings.

I then went into Preferences=>Shortcuts to set the shortcut for CCR (for me that's Ctrl+Shift+C), when I opened the CCR shortcut list I got this:

calibre, version 9.11.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeEncodeError</b>:'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 14-15: surrogates not allowed

calibre 9.11 Portable embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.14.6
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: D:\Calibre\Portables\Latest\Calibre\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Calibre Config Reports (5, 0, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\keyboard.py", line 612, in sizeHint
  File "calibre\gui2\keyboard.py", line 601, in to_doc
  File "calibre\__init__.py", line 504, in prepare_string_for_xml
  File "calibre\__init__.py", line 495, in replace_entities
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 14-15: surrogates not allowed

Had to kill calibre with Task Manager.

BR

[Comfy.n]

Thank you, will take a look ASAP.

[Comfy.n]

I believe it's now fixed. On some other plugins we chose to not use the swash ampersand on shortcut label, for a reason... From latest tests, I take it issue is solved, but please test version 5.0.1.

[BetterRed]

That fixed it.

To type a swash ampersand I assume you need a buckling spring keyboard.

BR

[Comfy.n]

It's not easy to explain the reasons that led to the adoption of the swash ampersand, but there are some paths in calibre where using even escaped regular ampersands don't work as expected.

I wanted to keep the ampersand, so I remembered one of @chaley's recommendations and after some digging, decided to go with that.

[Comfy.n]

That's ancient indeed, lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckli...useskin=vector