Beta testers for calibre 9 needed

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I tried the right click/restore defaults on the Bookshelf view. The first time I tried it, I got the following error:

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...6015ecdbdb2040

I cannot replicate right click restore defaults restoring all defaults. Steps I tried:

1) Turn off show splash screen in main interface tab
2) Turn on show a field under title in cover grid
3) In bookshelf change thumbnail opacity to 31%
4) Right click bookshelf and choose restore defaults

The change in 3 is reverted the changes in 1 and 2 are not, as expected.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

8.99.7

In Light mode I can't see any empty checkboxes

This is a change in Qt's fusion style which the calibre style inherits. I may be able to override it, but then again, I may not depending on how involved drawing checkboxes is in Qt.

EDIT: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...801d2de2f0f3aa

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

@Kovid, found a bug: the text in items in the Plugins list are not vertically centered.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...7e687aee678d0b

[nqk]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

testing by people using calibre in non-English languages would be
great.

I'm using Vietnamese UI, no issues found so far with version 8.99.7 based on my daily usage.

[BetterRed]

Qt ain't what it purports to be… cute… it's monstrous.

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Has anyone tried sorting on one column e.g. Authors (LN, FN) and grouping on another e.g. Publisher - I have, it can be a bit confusing on a library of 3.400 books.

Let's say Edward S. Aarons - Assignment to Disaster is at top of List view, and it's the current book and shown in Book details. A switch to Shelf view, will make it first in the Fawcett World Library group, which probably isn't visible, BD wont change.

Should there be a "Go to current book" button/shortcut - e.g. a drop down action on Group by button? Or should it happen automagically>

BR

[un_pogaz]

Use arrow key, the view will automatically move to the current book
(well, not exactly the same that before you presse the key, but it shouldn't be very far away)

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

For User Interface plugins, can they please be allowed to be disabled? I would not mind having to select to disable and then have to restart calibre. It makes it difficult to beta test when you want to disable an interface plugin without having to delete it.

This is now possible.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...5de270712e83cd

The original reason to not allow to disable User Interface plugins by default was to prevent the user from disabling internal plugins, which would break many things. But in the meantime, ways to distinguish Internal and User instaled plugins have appeared, so we can change the default value and check if is a Internal and essential plugin by others way.

However, Calibre still require to load and initialize plugins at the startup, so depending of the kind of error and where is it in the plugins, Calible could still fail to load the plugins, that it disable or not.

Else, to "force" disableling a plugin without load it, no need to delete it: just go to the "%appdata%/calibre//plugins/" folder and rename it (by adding a hyphen at the end), so that Calibre can found the plugin file. And once you test done, rename it back.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

This is now possible.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...5de270712e83cd

Wheee! this is AWESOME!! Major calibre 9.0 feature, IMO.

I was running from source to see how it's going, yet I missed that.

Upon a quick test, I found that it works flawlessly but issues no warning for GUI plugins.

I mean, it's somewhat obvious for us, but new calibre users might like to know that GUI plugins require calibre restart to be disabled.

[Comfy.n]

either way, I think is ok, BTW. (with or without an info message; info messages can be annoying.)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

So, one possibility is that, in waiting to have a valid page count, Calibre uses the file size to make an estimate as fallback. And given the name of the book, it would not be surprising if this book were very large and therefore the estimate were very high.
Check in the Bookshelf view preference tab if their still book in pending count. Once the full library is scanned and the size persists, we can see how it happen.

The counting was redone when the cover sizes were off. Now when I ran calibre, it seems to be correct. But what I want to know is what caused this in the first place? When I posted the screen grabs, the counting had finished.

BTW, how do I get just a specific book to recount?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

No, the vast majority of InterfaceAction plugin can't be disable by the UI like that.

InterfaceAction plugin are the value "can_be_disabled" to False by default, except if the plugin dev explicitly set this value to True, what few if none do. Note that the default value for all the plugins is True, but Kovid explicitly set it for False to InterfaceAction, so I will not very hope on that. Their is probably a good reason.

What's the difference between disabling the Interface Plugin (on a reboot) or deleting it? In both cases, it's not active. Being able to disable means we don't have to delete the plugins and we then don't have to reinstall and we don't have to reconfigure.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

This is now possible.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...5de270712e83cd

The original reason to not allow to disable User Interface plugins by default was to prevent the user from disabling internal plugins, which would break many things. But in the meantime, ways to distinguish Internal and User instaled plugins have appeared, so we can change the default value and check if is a Internal and essential plugin by others way.

However, Calibre still require to load and initialize plugins at the startup, so depending of the kind of error and where is it in the plugins, Calible could still fail to load the plugins, that it disable or not.

Else, to "force" disableling a plugin without load it, no need to delete it: just go to the "%appdata%/calibre//plugins/" folder and rename it (by adding a hyphen at the end), so that Calibre can found the plugin file. And once you test done, rename it back.

Thank you. That's brilliant.

[un_pogaz]

Okay,
I don't know for you Kovid, and I don't want to call the devil, but I think that the bookshelf view is done. Surrely tweak and bug fix, but is finished.
Phew, thanks for all your feedback.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

Okay,
I don't know for you Kovid, and I don't want to call the devil, but I think that the bookshelf view is done. Surrely tweak and bug fix, but is finished.
Phew, thanks for all your feedback.

Yeah definitely finished.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

Okay,
I don't know for you Kovid, and I don't want to call the devil, but I think that the bookshelf view is done. Surrely tweak and bug fix, but is finished.
Phew, thanks for all your feedback.

Actually, I do have an option for the bookself view I'd like to have. I'd like an option to be able to make the books all the same width or not and if we do want the same width, an option to change that width.