Beta test of major new features

[brendanl79]

I got a similar error the first time I clicked Preferences - I had just installed .90 and had not changed the UI at all from whatever I had set up under .51.

ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:u'timestamp'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\ui.py", line 2225, in do_config
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\config\__init__.py", line 373, in __init__
KeyError: u'timestamp'

But the fix is the same : shut down calibre, delete the "column map" section from gui.py, restart calibre, preferences works again.

Windows Vista/7 folks: your 'calibre configuration' directory is in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\calibre. Hope that saves some of you some time!

[Scott Nielsen]

Lots of useful stuff in there. Very impressive.

Originally Posted by chaley

[*]dates

Is there a way to set a user defined column to Year only? If so I'd be happy to help with beta testing.

I am now using Published column for original publication year but really don't like having to put in a month as well.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by brendanl79

I got a similar error the first time I clicked Preferences - I had just installed .90 and had not changed the UI at all from whatever I had set up under .51.

Future testers can avoid this problem by using your current version of Calibre to set all columns to visible before trying the beta.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Scott Nielsen

Is there a way to set a user defined column to Year only? If so I'd be happy to help with beta testing.

No. Custom date columns use all of year, month, and day.

Feel free to create an enhancement request ticket.

[catz2]

Hi,

any chance someone could give me detailed instructions on how to download the beta? I would love to do some testing as I really want the customisable columns feature.. But I can't find a link to the beta.

Catz

[Scott Nielsen]

Originally Posted by chaley

No. Custom date columns use all of year, month, and day.

Feel free to create an enhancement request ticket.

Fair do. I'll get that logged.

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by catz2

Hi,

any chance someone could give me detailed instructions on how to download the beta? I would love to do some testing as I really want the customisable columns feature.. But I can't find a link to the beta.

Catz

The links for both source and binaries are at the end of the first post in this thread. I assume that they are deliberately at the end of that psot to encourage you to read through it before trying the beta.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by catz2

any chance someone could give me detailed instructions on how to download the beta? I would love to do some testing as I really want the customisable columns feature.. But I can't find a link to the beta.

It's in the first post:

Source is available at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/calibre/custom-cols/. This branch will be kept up-to-date until the features are integrated with the standard release.

Binaries are available at http://calibre-ebook.com/downloads/betas/. It isn’t clear how often new beta binary releases will be made, or indeed if more releases will be made. The answer depends on how well the beta goes.

[ccayer]

Workaround: Don't hide any of the standard columns. If you already have done so (and I hope that you have), then stop calibre, edit gui.py in your calibre configuration directory and remove the 4 lines beginning with
Code:

# column map
# Columns to be displayed in the book list
column_map = cPickle.loads(

Restart calibre, and preferences should again be available.

That worked perfectly. I did hide one of the default columns in 0.6.51, before switching over to 0.6.90.

[Starson17]

@chaley: Excellent work!

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by chaley

I had to give all the warnings, because s**t happens. However, I have been running with the new stuff including news feeds for a few weeks without trouble,

I was merely thinking about the fact that the automatic news feeds will increment the book id number, and store the resulting news EPUB in the directory for the calibre author in the library. Then if you switch back to an older version using the same library, the un-incremented book id number of the older version will be used for each news feed, and the corresponding news EPUB will be stored in the same news directory.

There might be overlaps in name/number and/or some orphan news EPUBs may end up in that directory if both versions are creating books there as you switch between them. I just turned off the automatic news feeds in the old version.

[theducks]

I think I like the new GUI and the ability to hide the comments pane.
I think the jury is still out on the button bar change on the viewer:/
I tried to put the bar on the right and it got real wide (because of the Slider)
My other choice is the bottom (works). I dislike moving the mouse over what I am reading (or having the pointer there), which is why I prefer bottom or Right.

How about splitting the slider and search box into a separate bar, allowing choices of docking position (and please have it remember where I put it between Viewer uses).
(rather than x.y locations when docked, right,left,top, bottom so resizing the window does not mess up docked positioning)

[kovidgoyal]

There weren't any changes to the viewer in 0.6.90. Movable toolbars were present in the 0.6.x series already.

[kacir]

I report a very minor bug.

Installation under Linux - without any problem using steps described in third post.

I started the Calibre for the first time. There is text next to the big heart saying calibre: 0.6.90 from Kovid Goyal
and yet, the first thing it does it tells me that there is newer version available - 0.6.51

[kovidgoyal]

yes the update algorithm doesn't actually check if the current version number is higher than the latest release number. This is because betas are not that common in calibre land and I want to retain the flexibility of being able to change the versioning scheme in the future.