Adding Metadata - Workflow question

oldbwl · 12-14-2014, 08:41 AM

As a long time user of Calibre I have a question which has been niggling me for ages but I have been too lazy to ask about. I am using Linux Mint 17.1 with Calibre 2.12

In my set up I have selected to download only comments and covers Metadata.

When I click to download the metadata for a single book, as expected I am presented with a table to select from the list of titles found. There are four buttons, Next, View Log, Cancel, OK.

Next takes me to the next part of the downloads ie the cover. View Log works as expected as does cancel. But OK does not. I would expect the process to halt and populate with the information already gathered and selected. But instead it goes to Download covers, in other words OK works in the exact same way as Next.

I presume I am missing something here as I don't see this query has arisen before yet millions of peeps will have seen this.

Regards

kovidgoyal · 12-14-2014, 09:36 AM

Double click OK to see the difference to Next.

oldbwl · 12-14-2014, 10:28 AM

Well, that is in essence what I was doing, the 1st click (no matter how fast you click) takes you the Next download screen, clicking the second time just selects the existing image if there is one and cancels the process at that time. OK, it is not important, I suppose a fair bit of work would be needed to make one click do the same thing and it is afterall only an extra click....

Regards

kovidgoyal · 12-14-2014, 08:42 PM

One click deliberately does not do that, because when it did I got lots of complaints from people that did not expect clicking OK to close the dialog.

davidfor · 12-14-2014, 08:51 PM

Maybe "Finish" would be more appropriate than "OK". It's a wizard of sorts, so finish says you can stop now rather than going to the next step.

kovidgoyal · 12-14-2014, 09:13 PM

The problem with doing that is that people are used to clicking on that button and not having the dialog close, many of them wont notice that the button text has changed.

Really, to make that work the entire button row will have to be redesigned to make it radically different from what it is now, probably splitting the button groups, keeping only next on the right and moving the rest to the left.

kovidgoyal · 12-14-2014, 09:57 PM

Here, I got rid of the Next button, which should at least prevent people from being confused about why there exist two buttons that do (almost) the same thing.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...c5043ee6c5a3af

oldbwl · 12-15-2014, 02:58 AM

That is a neat solution.

Nice

regards

12-14-2014, 08:41 AM	#1
oldbwl Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 164 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Old Ynysybwl Device: Sony PRS-300	Adding Metadata - Workflow question As a long time user of Calibre I have a question which has been niggling me for ages but I have been too lazy to ask about. I am using Linux Mint 17.1 with Calibre 2.12 In my set up I have selected to download only comments and covers Metadata. When I click to download the metadata for a single book, as expected I am presented with a table to select from the list of titles found. There are four buttons, Next, View Log, Cancel, OK. Next takes me to the next part of the downloads ie the cover. View Log works as expected as does cancel. But OK does not. I would expect the process to halt and populate with the information already gathered and selected. But instead it goes to Download covers, in other words OK works in the exact same way as Next. I presume I am missing something here as I don't see this query has arisen before yet millions of peeps will have seen this. Regards Last edited by oldbwl; 12-14-2014 at 08:49 AM.

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12-14-2014, 09:36 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,863 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Double click OK to see the difference to Next.

12-14-2014, 10:28 AM	#3
oldbwl Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 164 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Old Ynysybwl Device: Sony PRS-300	Well, that is in essence what I was doing, the 1st click (no matter how fast you click) takes you the Next download screen, clicking the second time just selects the existing image if there is one and cancels the process at that time. OK, it is not important, I suppose a fair bit of work would be needed to make one click do the same thing and it is afterall only an extra click.... Regards

12-14-2014, 08:42 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,863 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	One click deliberately does not do that, because when it did I got lots of complaints from people that did not expect clicking OK to close the dialog.

12-14-2014, 08:51 PM	#5
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Maybe "Finish" would be more appropriate than "OK". It's a wizard of sorts, so finish says you can stop now rather than going to the next step.

12-14-2014, 09:13 PM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,863 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The problem with doing that is that people are used to clicking on that button and not having the dialog close, many of them wont notice that the button text has changed. Really, to make that work the entire button row will have to be redesigned to make it radically different from what it is now, probably splitting the button groups, keeping only next on the right and moving the rest to the left.

12-14-2014, 09:57 PM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,863 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Here, I got rid of the Next button, which should at least prevent people from being confused about why there exist two buttons that do (almost) the same thing. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...c5043ee6c5a3af

12-15-2014, 02:58 AM	#8
oldbwl Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 164 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Old Ynysybwl Device: Sony PRS-300	That is a neat solution. Nice regards

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