Beta testers for calibre 9 needed

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

IMO: the best place to put the emblem is below the spine (i.e. on the shelf on which the book sits), rather than on the spine itself.

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Note how it can cohabit with the Mark books push pin - nice

Curious: what does "Automatic" placement do?

BR

If location is irrelevant, it's obvious it's designed for a single ruler, I suppose due to the limited space.

[JSWolf]

8.99.12 is taking a lot longer to shutdown then did 8.99.11 (I think that's it).

Driver: KoboTouch'
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[82.96] [Backup Configuration Folder]: finished
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[83.00] Waiting for overseers and live to shutdown
[83.00] Shutdown complete in 37.09, quitting...

[kovidgoyal]

Yes shelf view supports only one emblem. And automatic put the emblem either above or below the book depending on where there is most space, after placing the mark and on device emblems as well.

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by dunhill

un_pogaz or Kovid, I have a question. I understand that when using emblems in the shelf view, I should choose which rule to use and position it first; that's what I've been trying.

But in the cover grid view, more than one rule appears under emblems.

I'm guessing that the shelf view only accepts one emblem.
I deduce that the shelf view would only accept one emblem, which is obviously due to the allocated space.

Yep, only one and singular emblem (maybe tweak the string a bit to avoid confusion, I just copy-past the text from grid and remove the plural).
And yeah, we are very limited to space here, and when two icons share the same place, we need to resize them so that it doesn't overflow, which can be squishy.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Curious: what does "Automatic" placement do?

BR

Place them when the space is availde in the order: bellow, above, and if both taken, bellow and resize the two.
Custom emblem placement is determined after the Calibre ones.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

That reminds me. I forgot to mention that there should be an easy way to go back to the default spine font. If you don't go and look what the font is used by the rest of the GUI, you won't know and cannot go back. A selection at the top of the font list that says Default system font would do.

Yeah, me two. Same QoL because we can't go back manuely to the "default value".
Work on that.
But I doudt that you idea of a top entry will be posible. We'll see, there will be at least one button "Reset" somewhere.

[dunhill]

[QUOTE=un_pogaz;4562651]Yep, only one and singular emblem (maybe tweak the string a bit to avoid confusion, I just copy-past the text from grid and remove the plural).
And yeah, we are very limited to space here, and when two icons share the same place, we need to resize them so that it doesn't overflow, which can be squishy.


Okay, I just wanted to know.