Please Help Test Sigil 2.7.5 Beta

[BetterRed]

No problems with cursory checks of Folder In and Out, Shady Characters and DOCX Import.

Nothing more to add to the child windows window mgt issue. Except, I suspect many users would move the non-modal child window to a second monitor if it was in the way. The handful of people I know who edit books for a living have multiple monitors on their desks.

BR

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

No problems with cursory checks of Folder In and Out, Shady Characters and DOCX Import.

Nothing more to add to the child windows window mgt issue. Except, I suspect many users would move the non-modal child window to a second monitor if it was in the way. The handful of people I know who edit books for a living have multiple monitors on their desks.

BR

Thanks for testing those plugins! I had the same thought about multiple monitors, or just offset overlapping the two windows and popping back and forth but on some laptops, both are hard to do at times. Leaving the solution up to the user and using add-ons makes sense and users can still do that.

But, fwiw, I think I have found a way to auto close stale minimized windows after changing books. I will try that first before tossing in the towel.

Thanks

Update:

With my most recent commit, old minimized non-modal dialogs are now properly closed upon loading a new book preventing the stale dialog problem. I have pushed this change to master.

So as it stands, people on Windows and Mac can easily use their own supplemental tools to add in titlebar and window resizing abilities if they so desire. Windows and Linux users (depending on window manager used) can use the Minimize if desired. It just will not work on MacOS without making the window being created as a top-level window (parent = nullptr) which I am not willing to do. People who do not like allowing dialogs to minize need not use that feature.

Hope this is enough.

[BetterRed]

I have found a way to auto close stale minimized windows after changing books.

I remember a time when OS/X would roll up a window if you double clicked the title bar, not sure if there was a stay on top.

And, I can't recall which one, but one of the GUI OS's from the 80s had roll up, stay on top, minimise to desktop etc - wasn't Lisa, might have been VisiOn or Gem.

BR

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

I got the 2.7.5 appimage and tried a couple of epubs. Exercised the ODTImport,, Check Internal Links, Remove unused selectors, Epubcheck, Footnote manipulator, InsertImageSVG, Punctuation Smarten, Remove Inline Styles. Got no errors, but on a quick test some of the plugins had little or nothing to do; still they ran with no errors. Running on Pop_os.

Thanks for testing and reporting back.

[jugaor]

Hi.
Windows 11, tried the plugins:

Access-Aide
CSSValidator
DOCXImport
EnvVarEditor
Epub2LegacyMetaData
Epub2Text
FixHeadStyles
InsertImageSVG
KindleImport
QuickPrefsEdit
SubsetFonts

No issues so far.

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by jugaor

Hi.
Windows 11, tried the plugins:

Access-Aide
CSSValidator
DOCXImport
EnvVarEditor
Epub2LegacyMetaData
Epub2Text
FixHeadStyles
InsertImageSVG
KindleImport
QuickPrefsEdit
SubsetFonts

No issues so far.

Thank you. Glad to hear it.