[GUI Plugin] Calibre Config Reports

[Comfy.n]

BR, I made an adjustment to the Version History, please see if it is correct?

[BetterRed]

That's better - now the same as all the others plugins.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If I double click the icon I see the relevant MR or Donate page - in the wrong browser, I have the "openers_by_scheme" tweak set to use Edge which works everywhere else in calibre, e.g. links to Goodreads, Publisher sites etc.
BR

I will see if it is possible to grab the value of the tweak and make open url action respect that.

I've noted the other issues; will see if i can provide new version soon

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I will see if it is possible to grab the value of the tweak and make open url action respect that.

I'm surprised you even have to know about the Tweak.

When I set it up (IIRC it was provided at my request) links in existing plugins from Kiwidude and Dalton ST just started using it without any intervention on their part… i.e. it's part of the calibre furniture.

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I've noted the other issues; will see if i can provide new version soon

No rush - if I were you I'd focus on the cause of the shortcut mis-categorisation.

BR

[Comfy.n]

Version 2.0.6

- fixed shortcuts filtering for built-in features/ user plugins

- open url now respects Calibre's openers_by_scheme tweak

- added optional Plugin Info box below plugins table

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Apart from personal plugins, when is plugin Category and plugin Type not the same thing. What is plugin Install Type, mine are all 1… most were installed via the Updater, but two are personal and installed from file.

BR

hmm, good catch about category vs type. Will need to take a second look at this. I was sure there was a difference but now that you bring the question...

the install type is 1 for external; from calibre source:
EXTERNAL = 1
SYSTEM = 2
BUILTIN = 3

If I recall correctly there was a different classification to distinguish sideloaded plugins and the ones installed directly via plugin updater. Now I can't remember.

edit to add: BR, I was fixing the shortcuts dropdown chooser not showing correctly the built-in features vs user plugins... and I ended up forgetting to look into the Tag Browser group being classified as Miscellaneous. This is now in my todo list for next version.

^

Fixed in version 2.0.7

[BetterRed]

Shortcuts makes more sense now.

After changing an unwanted QV shortcut to None, I used Refresh and noticed all the Main Window Layout shortcuts had changed None Quit CCR tested the shortcuts (phew still work), restarted CCR and they were there.

I've spotted an anomaly with the shortcut for Scroll Book Details. I think it may be the same glitch as to why CCR isn't showing None as the default. If you can do a version with a Shortcut (e.g Shift+Alt+C) and attach it to a reply here I'll confirm whether it's the same glitch, then whatever solution Bradles comes up with for SBD should work for you (SBD is tiny 100 lines of code, 50% comments)

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I think I can see maybe what was intended with plugin Category (IMO "Source" would be better name for the column) — Built-in, or Plugin Updater, or Other. If it had that, then maybe there'd be no need for the Install Type column.

The plugin list has a True/False column for Can Disable, but lacks a column for Is Disabled

BR

[Comfy.n]

I will keep the Category column and change the values displayed, in order to reproduce the new user-friendly categorization Kovid implemented in Calibre 8.9 - for instance: Type - Edit Book tool; Category - Extend the calibre Editor. I thought I was already doing this but not really. This was meant mainly for use in the dropdown chooser. User may choose to display on the table just one of those columns and keep the sortability of the same values.

I wasn't able to reproduce the Refresh incident you mentioned with changing QV (Quick View) and doing the table refresh.

Regarding the CCR shortcut: what, is it still displaying blank for you? I have tested latest version on several calibre installs and it displays None... What happens if you uninstall CCR, then reinstall the latest version? Please confirm this before I make a temp version with default shortcut assigned for tests. BTW I can't find such 'SBD' shortcut When I filter 'scroll' the only shortcut I see is 'Auto scroll book list'

As for the Is Disabled column: good catch, though I find this being seldom used, as Calibre allows disabling only some plugin types (e.g. metadata sources)

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I will keep the Category column and change the values displayed, in order to reproduce the new user-friendly categorization Kovid implemented in Calibre 8.9 - for instance: Type - Edit Book tool; Category - Extend the calibre Editor. I thought I was already doing this but not really. This was meant mainly for use in the dropdown chooser. User may choose to display on the table just one of those columns and keep the sortability of the same values.

No idea what that is. So, I'll come back to you on this.
Aa-ha - now I do, like most so-called 'user friendly' thingamabobs (e.g. dates) I pretend they don't exist.

The CCR Category chooser reflects the sections in the PI Index - I would have labelled this one PI Type.

The PI Updater Category chooser looks like it does the same but uses different words - I would have labelled this one PI Usage.

And I would have another one labelled PI Source - Built-in, Updater, Manual (from file)

One of my biggest gripes with a lot of software is that they often use same word to label different objects, and different words to label the same object. It's not as though English has a shortage of words, Cambridge added 1,200 new ones last week.

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I wasn't able to reproduce the Refresh incident you mentioned with changing QV (Quick View) and doing the table refresh.

Once I saw no harm done, I didn't try to reproduce at the time. I don't think it related to changing a QV shortcut at such

I'll try to reproduce… maybe in light mode.

I wish I could tweak calibre to use a different border colour for the current widget (i.e. the one with keyboard focus)… like I can Sigil:

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Regarding the CCR shortcut: what, is it still displaying blank for you?

Yep.

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I have tested latest version on several calibre installs and it displays None... What happens if you uninstall CCR, then reinstall the latest version?

No worries, I'll install an additional 8.10 portable and add CCR to it and get back to you.

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Please confirm this before I make a temp version with default shortcut assigned for tests.

Scratch that anyway.

I was trying to fashion a list of custom shortcuts. SBD is one of the few default shortcuts I leave be — i.e. I don't set to None or something else — and because it's unusual — Space/Shift Space— in the context of what I was doing it looked weird to me, viz:



Could you add Custom Shortcuts to the "Show" choose list - that would include customised to "None".

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

BTW I can't find such 'SBD' shortcut When I filter 'scroll' the only shortcut I see is 'Auto scroll book list'

It's a plugin, if it isn't installed you won't see its shortcut.

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

As for the Is Disabled column: good catch, though I find this being seldom used, as Calibre allows disabling only some plugin types (e.g. metadata sources)

Being seldom used - by who? There are ~2.7M active calibre users, I've disabled dozens.

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

. . .

No worries, I'll install an additional 8.10 portable and add CCR to it and get back to you.

Still blank



Just in case you're wondering



And yes, I've tried doing a calibre quit and start.

BR

[Comfy.n]

Thank you for this test. I'm working on a new version and I will try to look more thoroughly into this. The 'customised to none' question is interesting, and I will try to implement it.

Ah, the SBD plugin. I had tested it long ago and found it cool but didn't recall

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Thank you for this test. I'm working on a new version and I will try to look more thoroughly into this. The 'customised to none' question is interesting, and I will try to implement it.

Ah, the SBD plugin. I had tested it long ago and found it cool but didn't recall

As I posted earlier, most optional plugins do not have any default shortcuts - I just added Count Pages, it has "None" in Default and in Assigned.

• double clicked CCR Count Pages
• Shortcut Editor (SE) popped
• double clicked SE Count Pages
• I changed it to Custom,
• entered Alt+C,
• clicked Done,
• clicked Apply,
• clicked Refresh in CCR, list shuffled, but CP still None & None,
• clicked Refresh again, another but different shuffle, but CP still None & None,
• clicked Refresh again, another shuffle, but CP still None & None.
• Quit CCR and started it again

Everything hunky dory, viz



Refresh doesn't work. This is what must have been happening yesterday when I changed the QV shortcut and my Layout custom shortcuts 'disappeared".

Notice I wrote "clicked" - that is deliberate. Instead of the keyboard I used the mouse, which for me requires 2 hands and 120% concentration. Why, in case there were any thoughts that I was using the wrong accelerator key (i.e. Reset instead off Refresh) or Tabbing to the wrong button.

BR

[BetterRed]

I had an idea for an additional feature - New plugin notifier, would pop a once only notify when a new plugin is added to the plugin index.

BR

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I had an idea for an additional feature - New plugin notifier, would pop a once only notify when a new plugin is added to the plugin index.

BR

Great idea, thanks! I think I will be one to use this feature a lot if it can be implemented. I will need some time to release new version, focusing on making current features stable.

I made a quick test on fresh calibre install and, again, couldn't reproduce the Refresh behaviour you experienced.

One thing I noticed is that there needs to be a visual distinction between Default and Assigned. I'll probably make the Assigned column bold formatted.

[Comfy.n]

I've published version 2.0.8 with some fixes.

- CCR shortcut now shows correctly 'None'
- Improved History tab duplicate detection
- Shortcuts tab: applied bold formatting to Assigned column

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I've published version 2.0.8 with some fixes.

- CCR shortcut now shows correctly 'None'
- Improved History tab duplicate detection
- Shortcuts tab: applied bold formatting to Assigned column

Yay - pesky blank gone

I've not looked at history - all I'm seeing is plugin installs and removes Not seeing changes to shortcuts etc. More to come?

Shortcuts: It would make sense to bold at the cell level i.e Bold Assigned Cell if Assigned Cell ¬= Default Cell. But what's the point of bolding the entire column? The column header doesn't disappear. BTW thanks for implementing column moves - I now have Assigned before Default.

I just looked at Custom columns for the first time. If you read my earlier post you should have seen this one coming.

Why rebrand "Lookup name" and "Column header" to "Label" and "Name".

If you do what you've done for Shortcuts and provide a hook into Add your own columns, the user has to switch to a different nomenclature when they switch back and forth — why? What's the value add?

I like this, be nice to have it in the calibre main window titlebar.



When I installed 2.08, it didn't ask me to do I restart — it restarted without asking. That's fine when you're only updating CCR, but if it were adopted universally it would be a PITA if one needed to update multiple PI's due a major change in calibre - or Qt IIRC that's why users are offered the choice of Restart Now or . . .

BR