[Android] Wish List

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

I confess to a bit of confusion.

The first post from NSILMike talks about "remote sync". I interpreted that as being a desire to connect as a wireless device to an instance of calibre running remotely. The remaining two posts move away from this notion of connecting remotely toward downloading from the cloud, which is a very different thing.

I sent him to that thread because I thought there was a lot of overlap in the topics and the desired results.

Originally Posted by chaley

BTW: in all my posts I use CC to mean Calibre Companion. I never use it to mean Calibre Cloud.

Me too.

[kaufman]

Small request.

When in the grouping drawer, scrolling up scrolls up everything below the search bar except the word Groups. It would be nice if you had already picked a group (ie title), when you scrolled down it would leave the group (ie Title) on the display as well. That would make it easier to go back a level and also make it more consistent with the way groups work.

Thanks.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Small request.

When in the grouping drawer, scrolling up scrolls up everything below the search bar except the word Groups. It would be nice if you had already picked a group (ie title), when you scrolled down it would leave the group (ie Title) on the display as well. That would make it easier to go back a level and also make it more consistent with the way groups work.

Thanks.

I can do this, but I am worried about the real estate it takes on phones. It removes a full scrollable line from the list below the category header. Does anyone think this will be a problem?

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

I can do this, but I am worried about the real estate it takes on phones. It removes a full scrollable line from the list below the category header. Does anyone think this will be a problem?

Optional?

If you are playing with the screen and the options page, I wouldn't mind an option to hide the search bar. I don't think I have ever used it except in testing.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Optional?

No. It is buried too deep in the app for that.

If you are playing with the screen and the options page, I wouldn't mind an option to hide the search bar. I don't think I have ever used it except in testing.

I am not playing with options, but I will put this on the wish list.

EDIT: actually, if you ever use the long-press to filter then you use the search box to cancel it.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

No. It is buried too deep in the app for that.

Oh, ok. Well, I get 12 lines under the grouping, so losing one would be fine for me, but I have a large screen phone.

Originally Posted by chaley

I am not playing with options, but I will put this on the wish list.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by chaley

EDIT: actually, if you ever use the long-press to filter then you use the search box to cancel it.

I don't ever do that. I like to browse categories and then go from book to book.

[kaufman]

OK, one more little UI idea. Please let me know if you get tired of hearing these.

It would be nice to have some visual indication of when the device was connected to Calibre.

I thought of two possibilities

1) In the book list show a W or a C in the top of the display.
2) In the grouping drawer show a message stating the type of connection at the top near the Grouping/Book count/Sorting messages.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

OK, one more little UI idea. Please let me know if you get tired of hearing these.

It would be nice to have some visual indication of when the device was connected to Calibre.

I thought of two possibilities

1) In the book list show a W or a C in the top of the display.
2) In the grouping drawer show a message stating the type of connection at the top near the Grouping/Book count/Sorting messages.

Unhide the connect/disconnect menu item.

The content server connection already says "CC Content Server" in the action bar.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

Unhide the connect/disconnect menu item.

Oh right. Would you consider making this a three state option.

Always show in menu
Always show on Screen
Show on both when connected

Essentially, the third one would work the way the existing "Move Connect to Menu" does, but it would also show the disconnect button on the screen when connected.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Oh right. Would you consider making this a three state option.

Always show in menu
Always show on Screen
Show on both when connected

Essentially, the third one would work the way the existing "Move Connect to Menu" does, but it would also show the disconnect button on the screen when connected.

T'is now on the wish list.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

Hmmmm: perhaps the best is a number of characters that controls the number of authors. If adding an author causes the count to go over the limit, an ellipsis instead of that author is added. Of course, the first author must be permitted even if the length exceeds the count.

I started using this tonight, and I like it, but I have an idea that might make it easier to use.

Instead of cutting of at a certain number of characters, how about cutting it off at a certain number of lines. Since the purpose of this is to limit how much space the books takes up on the list, it is really number of lines that users want to limit, not the number of characters.

The big advantages to doing it by lines is that

1) The first time a user does it, they don't have to do a trial and error to see how many characters there are in 1, 2, or 3 (or however many lines they want) lines.

2) If the user ever changes their font size, their selection will continue to work.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

I started using this tonight, and I like it, but I have an idea that might make it easier to use.

Instead of cutting of at a certain number of characters, how about cutting it off at a certain number of lines. Since the purpose of this is to limit how much space the books takes up on the list, it is really number of lines that users want to limit, not the number of characters.

The big advantages to doing it by lines is that

1) The first time a user does it, they don't have to do a trial and error to see how many characters there are in 1, 2, or 3 (or however many lines they want) lines.

2) If the user ever changes their font size, their selection will continue to work.

It is difficult to get the number of "lines" that text uses but I might be able to do that. A bigger problem is that it is an incompatible change. I suppose I could divide the number of characters by 50 or some such to migrate to a line count, but in any event the user would be required to fix it.

[kaufman]

You could say that any number under 10 would be the number of lines and any larger number would remain the number of characters.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

You could say that any number under 10 would be the number of lines and any larger number would remain the number of characters.

True. I tend not to like probabilistic behavior like this, but in this case it should be OK. That does mean that I would have to limit the number of lines entered in the "new system" to less than the inflection point.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

True. I tend not to like probabilistic behavior like this, but in this case it should be OK. That does mean that I would have to limit the number of lines entered in the "new system" to less than the inflection point.

That's probably ok, since the largest number for lines is probably about 15, and the smallest number for characters is probably about 50. You could make the inflection point 25 and never have an issue. (Famous last words.)