Any way I could get calibre usable ?

[Worldwalker]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

What happened to the collaborative part of open source ?

The part that requires other people to do what you demand? It never existed.

But it looks like that, unless you're ready do code it all yourself, you're out of luck.

Code it yourself, hire a coder, or persuade existing coders to do it for free. You can't, you won't, and you started out by insulting the coders, so they're not only not going to work for you for free, you've set the entire concept you're promoting back years.

Why don't calibre have a ticket system ?

You mean like the ticket system? The one with the ticket type "enhancement"?

To allow proposing stuff, see how many are interested, help people interested by an idea to get together.

A lot of ideas have been proposed. Many of them are now in calibre. You're still missing one critical point: the people who proposed them did not start out by insulting calibre, its developers, and its users. People who do so tend not to get the results they want, because people see the poster and his or her insults instead of any idea that poster may be trying to promote.

If someone comes up to you and tells you to your face that you're fat and ugly and your mother dresses you funny, are you going to notice that they add "oh, and you left your car unlocked"? Unlikely. You're going to be so angry about the insults that you won't notice the rest. No matter what you have to say, your attitude can make sure nobody wants to listen. And it did.

By the way, you said Sigil is great, apparently because its developers welcome being insulted, its users like being told they're pretending to use useless software, and people jump to do what you want them to ... so why isn't Sigil the file manager you want? You say because it's not supposed to be a file manager? Well, neither is calibre; that's kind of the whole point. Calibre is to file managers like file managers are to block and sector editors.

Every time someone shows you how to get calibre to do something you want it to do, you either deny its effectiveness or ignore them completely, and shift your whining to something else. The only thing that will satisfy you, it seems, is to have calibre's entire concept thrown out and the whole thing rebuilt just for you because you said so. And that's not going to happen.

Go make people turn Sigil into the file manager of your dreams. Thanks to your attitude, I doubt if anyone here is going to lift a finger to do anything you want in calibre.

[leday]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Unfortunately, it seems, "what's done" drags on ad naseum.

I basically said the same thing a while back in other words and got shot at for saying it, but FWIW I agree with you.... going to hide under my rock now...

[kennyc]

Oh my, here we go again. This pops up every six months or so.

Calibre is a wonderful and free piece of greatness.

If you don't like the way it works, go build your own.

Make suggestions to the Calibre project if you like, but don't expect whole-scale changes because it works just fine the way it is and doesn't cost a penny!

[EowynCarter]

If you don't like the way it works, go build your own.

Yeap, that what i'm doing.
Got some rather good result in barely a day's work. Read metadata of books in a folders, edit them.
Though it's just sandboxing right now.
I need to figure out some bug in the ePub library i'm using. The way Flight Crew reacts to some of my paid for ePubs, ouch ! Publishers need to think about hiring some techies. Or give their editors a formation with xml / html. Maybe both.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Oh my, here we go again. This pops up every six months or so.

Calibre is a wonderful and free piece of greatness.

If you don't like the way it works, go build your own.

Make suggestions to the Calibre project if you like, but don't expect whole-scale changes because it works just fine the way it is and doesn't cost a penny!

Not to interfere, but this thread was dying. Everything that needs to be said has been said.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Manichean

Not to interfere, but this thread was dying. Everything that needs to be said has been said.

How's the weather there?

[Manichean]

Oh, it's great. Just around the freezing point, and it's simultaneously snowing and raining. I gotta leave the house tonight, that should be fun