Too good to be true

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Manichean

I can't tell if you're being ironic or not, but did you try pressing the delete key on your keyboard?

Yes, and that deleted the book from my library

(and a bit of both. I really did delete a book from my library, because I thought it would be the default action if I had a reader connected to my PC, turned out it wasn't )

Originally Posted by chaley

Note that delete matching is also available on the delete toolbar dropdown. That might be easier to find as it eliminates one level of indirection. And it uses a left-click instead of a right-click...

But I'd still need a click!

Besides, I think I shouldn't have to use the mouse at all. It should do what I want to do it, right now. User interaction is so yesterday!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Honestly, I'm going to do something to get the job done, nice and easy. All I need is something to index book, edit meta-data, and synchronize. And a few other things. I'll see how far I actually go, if it gets "release worthy" at some point. And if the additional work is worth the trouble.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Besides, I think I shouldn't have to use the mouse at all. It should do what I want to do it, right now. User interaction is so yesterday!

Yes! Must have that DWIM feature! In addition to the paw-on-keyboard detector! Developers, hop to it, and maybe I will admit that your battery isn't totally dead!

And just in case you missed them, here are a few more exclamation marks!!!!!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Yes, and that deleted the book from my library

(and a bit of both. I really did delete a book from my library, because I thought it would be the default action if I had a reader connected to my PC, turned out it wasn't )



But I'd still need a click!

Besides, I think I shouldn't have to use the mouse at all. It should do what I want to do it, right now. User interaction is so yesterday!

And yet you want to be able to access your files directly.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by chaley

Yes! Must have that DWIM feature! In addition to the paw-on-keyboard detector! Developers, hop to it, and maybe I will admit that your battery isn't totally dead!

Integrate this Still, once your cat figures out how to type "human", nothing will stop it on its way to world domination. I, for one, welcome our feline overlords.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I have deleted books by accident several times, because I wanted to remove them from my device...

You're not alone.

One time I hooked up my son's ereader. Then sorted the library view by the on-device column. Once I had all the on-device items at the top I proceeded to go down the list and delete items (hitting the confirmation dialog each time) he had finished reading or would never read. It wasn't until I was into the items without the green check marks that I realized I was deleting items from my library and not his device.

Fortunately I was able to go into my Dropbox and restore the deleted book directories which included the books, covers, opf files and then restore the version of the metadata.db from right before I started randomly deleting books.

Maybe if I had a French cat this would never have happened.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Manichean

Integrate this

Damn, one good rant down the tubes. You folks who come up with solutions are a real bummer.

But I like that person's style. Consider this FAQ answer:

Spoiler:

If you carefully measure cat paws, you will find that practically all cat paws are significantly larger than a typical keyboard key. When a cat first places its paw down, the cat's weight plus the momentum of the cat's movement exerts pounds of force on the keyboard, primarily through the cat's paw pads. The cat's paw angles and toe positions also undergo complex changes while the paw lands on the keyboard. This forces keys and often key combinations down in a distinctive style of typing which includes unusual timing patterns. Cats' patterns of overall movement in walking or lying down also help make their typing more recognizable.

So PawSense detects cat typing by weighing a combination of factors to achieve maximal speed and reliability.

'Careful measurement'. 'momentum of movement'. 'complex changes'. What a wonderful description! Great to see someone who, as he says later, tries to have fun while doing something useful.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by chaley

'Careful measurement'. 'momentum of movement'. 'complex changes'. What a wonderful description! Great to see someone who, as he says later, tries to have fun while doing something useful.

This, again, puts me in mind of something else:

(XKCD)
Which only goes to show that I spend way too much time on the intartubes

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

And yet you want to be able to access your files directly.

Well, if I must yield to the yoke of Calibre, it might as well do everything, instead of doing things only partly so I'll still have to do most of it myself...

And I have the perfect cat-proof keystroke: win-M, or, as a last resort: win-L...

(see, no mouse required!)

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

Mmm, what ?

[kacir]

Originally Posted by chaley

I am really mad as well! Today my cat stepped on my keyboard and deleted a book. Calibre should never have permitted it.
...
I must stop using calibre until this problem is fixed.

Dear chaley

As per your requirement, the Calibre has been fixed.

I am afraid your system is severely misconfigured. But do not fear, we are here to help you.
When you install the Calibre for the first time, and you attempt to delete a book for the first time, a dialog panel will appear: The selected books will be permanently deleted and the files removed from your system, do you wish to continue?
At the bottom of this dialog panel there is checkbox, with option "Show this warning again". Your cat must have stepped on alt_S (after it stepped on Del and before it stepped on enter) and removed the check. Clever cat.
The situation is very easy to remedy. Go to preferences, Click on Behavior, and click on "Reset all disabled confirmation dialogs"

Yours truly
Kacir

[Worldwalker]

Am I the only one wondering, not so much how they measured the pressure of cat feet, but how they got the cat to cooperate?

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

Am I the only one wondering, not so much how they measured the pressure of cat feet, but how they got the cat to cooperate?

Getting the measurement method to work is usually glossed over in publications

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

Am I the only one wondering, not so much how they measured the pressure of cat feet, but how they got the cat to cooperate?

A cat is always very happy to cooperate with these kinds of stuff. As long as you don't tell them what it is all about. You should always do as if it's not planned. Some acting skill is required.

[user_none]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

... I need to use my mouse, right click the books, find the correct option in the context menu and only then will the books be removed from my device! That's way too difficult, there should be a much easier way!

It will be. I will be adding an enhancement that will prompt where you want the book deleted when you try to delete a book from your library that is also showing on the device.