The "calibre X.XX created by Kovid Goyal" toolbar

[firewater]

I've always hoped Calibre added the feature of hiding this part of the UI, but I guess if it ever happens it won't come out of nothing, so here I am finally requesting it.

Of course, I have nothing against the creator of Calibre (quite the opposite in fact), but I simply use nothing on this column and it's unpleasant to the eye to have it there. I don't need to know what version I'm running/who made it all the time, and I never switch views (furthermore, if I did, there are already shortcuts in placement for such actions). It also shows the amount of books in the library, but that's more of a fun fact I'd see from somewhere else on the UI rather than information that I actively want on screen. Perhaps most useful, there's the "Jobs" part, but when such thing is needed to be clicked on, the user may simply unhide the bar.

Always wondered why this isn't doable, considering the overwhelming amount of customization the program allows for. The bar looks really off-putting to me because not only I don't use it at all (almost, sometimes for jobs), but also because I'm having a very minimal approach to the Calibre UI (everything is hidden, and am using the Cover Grid -view with less amount of info on screen-).

Hope this will be added somewhere down the line!

[JSWolf]

This is not going to be changed. You'll just have to deal.

[kovidgoyal]

That's the status bar it is used for all sorts of emssages for running jobs, tooltips, update notifications, connected device name, and so on.

[firewater]

Right, so I still don't see how that would differentiate it from the other things that one can hide (as in, how it is any more essential, considering some users don't use any of the features it displays), but it is what it is, was worth asking anyhow.

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by firewater

Right, so I still don't see how that would differentiate it from the other things that one can hide (as in, how it is any more essential, considering some users don't use any of the features it displays), but it is what it is, was worth asking anyhow.

The status bar is critical to normal operation of Calibre. Maybe you have not noticed it, but there are also buttons on the right-hand edge that allow major sections of the unRAID GUI to be toggled on/off. It also gives access to the dialog for checking on progress of Calibre jobs.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by itimpi

The status bar is critical to normal operation of Calibre. Maybe you have not noticed it, but there are also buttons on the right-hand edge that allow major sections of the unRAID GUI to be toggled on/off. It also gives access to the dialog for checking on progress of Calibre jobs.

FTR : the buttons have configurable keyboard shortcuts, defaults are: Shift+Alt+T, B, G, D and J.

I never click the buttons, but have changed the 'Cover Browser' shortcut to Shift+Alt+C (Carousel).

But more importantly, for me at least, is the fact that status line also displays transient status information from plugins etc, and the Jobs button animates when jobs are running. I'd also like to see some sort of indication that tells me a library manager initiated server is running.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

The balls on the connect/share button change color when a server is running from blue to green.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The balls on the connect/share button change color when a server is running from blue to green.

That is a very subtle difference on many displays. I knew about the colors because I looked at the Icon set, thne figured where they were used
I think Hollow Balls (off), Green (server), Blue (WDC) and Yellow (both. Blue +Green =... )

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The balls on the connect/share button change color when a server is running from blue to green.

I don't have that button on a toolbar, and I have icon size set to Off, so even if it was there I wouldn't see it I have it in the context menu but the difference between green and blue is barely discernible.

And there's no indication of which library is being served. If you start a server on Library A and switch to Library B the server doesn't switch - nor would I expect it to! But it would be nice to see something like "Serving: Library A" or "Closed for lunch" somewhere

I normally start servers from scripts, but occasionally I start one from the calibre library manager on one of my subsidiary libraries, forget I did it, and I end up in a state of even greater confusion.

No biggie, given the thread was about the status line thought I'd throw it in. I'd quite like to see the Library and VL names down there too

a configurable status line in Preferences->Look and Feel

BR

[eschwartz]

Library and VL names are already in the titlebar, why do we need a configurable option to list it in yet more places?

[BetterRed]

Indeed they are in the Title bar as - |Physical Name| : |Virtual Name|. And the corresponding counts are in the Status bar as |Virtual Count| selected count |Physical Count|. By the time my eyes have traversed the 37cm between name and number, I've forgotten the former

BR

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Indeed they are in the Title bar as - |Physical Name| : |Virtual Name|. And the corresponding counts are in the Status bar as |Virtual Count| selected count |Physical Count|. By the time my eyes have traversed the 37cm between name and number, I've forgotten the former

BR

Now I heard that things in Australia were BIG,
But using Monitors so big that it takes enough time to traverse that eyes go to sleep?

Maybe yo just need more Coffee (so your eyes do not go to sleep between the top and bottom)

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

Now I heard that things in Australia were BIG,
But using Monitors so big that it takes enough time to traverse that eyes go to sleep?

Maybe yo just need more Coffee (so your eyes do not go to sleep between the top and bottom)

The eyes aren't problem, it's the short term memory

But that's 37 centimetres not inches. MB Ruler is configured for metric. Australia dropped British Empire units decades ago, always surprises me the US hangs onto them, given 1776 and all that

BR

[bkanuka]

Old thread, but this comes up when searching for hiding the status bar in calibre, so I thought I'd post here.

I don't want to restart a discussion on the importance of the status bar, but in case there's a user that wants to ignore all the good things in the status bar and hide it anyway, I've made a plugin that does just that (and allows you to toggle the status bar on and off).

https://github.com/bkanuka/calibre-p...hide-statusbar

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by bkanuka

Old thread, but this comes up when searching for hiding the status bar in calibre, so I thought I'd post here.

I don't want to restart a discussion on the importance of the status bar, but in case there's a user that wants to ignore all the good things in the status bar and hide it anyway, I've made a plugin that does just that (and allows you to toggle the status bar on and off).

https://github.com/bkanuka/calibre-p...hide-statusbar

You should to go to the Calibre Plugin forum and start a new thread on this plugin. Describe what it does and how to use it. Also, attach the plugin to the first post.

Also, is your plugin compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3 for when Calibre with Python 3 comes out?