I live and learn-deleting unwanted formats

[speakingtohe]

Sometimes I want to delete a specific format of a book and I have been doing this in the edit metadata individually.

Today I discovered I can do this by right clicking on the format in the book details pane. Much faster.

I am a compulsive backer upper usually so it is not about the disk space saved. Often when I convert a PDF to epub and am unsatisfied I want to delete the ugly epub. Or if I want to import a format and I don't want to change my add books options and change them back. Much easier than the remove specific format command.

Probably everyone knows this but me, but just in case.

Helen

[eschwartz]

You can also do it via the Remove Books icon (which weirdly uses the recycling icon -- I had to override that with a custom icon.)

The dropdown allows you to remove only a specific format.

As an added bonus, you can then do a bulk remove.

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

You can also do it via the Remove Books icon (which weirdly uses the recycling icon -- I had to override that with a custom icon.)

The dropdown allows you to remove only a specific format.

As an added bonus, you can then do a bulk remove.

Yes the dropdown/right click on book is what I meant by the remove specific format command I have been using this for years, but sometimes found the edit metadata window less bother.

For removing a single format from a single book in the book details pane it is one right click and one select click. Seems simpler but no big deal if it is not something you do regularly. The files deleted still go to the recycling bin though in either case.

Helen

[eschwartz]

Of course it goes to the recycling bin, where else do deleted files go? I mean, come ON!

Why is that a bad thing???

And I would think the remove books dropdown was less clicks than edit metadata ==> remove format....

In any event, you can always go ahead and configure the delete key shortcut to pop up with a list of specific formats to delete. Then it is a button click plus a mouse click and you're done. Even easier.

A truly lazy person would put in the extra effort to make sure it works smoothly.

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Of course it goes to the recycling bin, where else do deleted files go? I mean, come ON!

So why the custom icon you referred to earlier? Come ON!

Why is that a bad thing???

Not saying it is a bad thing for most. I would prefer an option to permanently delete like the <shift>Del in Windows.

And I would think the remove books dropdown was less clicks than edit metadata ==> remove format....

In any event, you can always go ahead and configure the delete key shortcut to pop up with a list of specific formats to delete. Then it is a button click plus a mouse click and you're done. Even easier.

A truly lazy person would put in the extra effort to make sure it works smoothly.

Well often I am in the edit metadata window anyway and just have to click the format and the little recycle icon.

Helen

[theducks]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

So why the custom icon you referred to earlier? Come ON!
Not saying it is a bad thing for most. I would prefer an option to permanently delete like the <shift>Del in Windows.

Well often I am in the edit metadata window anyway and just have to click the format and the little recycle icon.

Helen

Recycle is so PC (and when applied to some e-books, a license violation...'May not be transferred or sold...)

For years, my desktop W9x Icon said 'Dumpster"

Calibre has always allowed you to change the icons

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by theducks

Recycle is so PC (and when applied to some e-books, a license violation...'May not be transferred or sold...)

For years, my desktop W9x Icon said 'Dumpster"

Calibre has always allowed you to change the icons

I was just wondering why change an icon which depicted a function in a way that was according to eschwartz blatantly obvious.

I do know you can change the icons, but never had the urge. Don't mess with the simple stuff unless it offends you mightily is my motto.

Helen

[eschwartz]

Because the recycling symbol is just wrong. I am not recycling the book/format, I am deleting it. So I replaced it with a trash can icon from some thread or another.

It may be called the recycling bin on Windows, but on Ubuntu it is called Trash, and thus on Ubuntu I have changed the icon. As in most things, Windows is wrong here, and it sounds stupid. Hey, let me recycle my files! Well, where am I reusing them?

Recycling is for materials that can be repurposed for new stuff, a paradigm that does not fit here.

However, I may heed your advice and not change the icon on my Windows install (when I get back to it, it's at home and right now I'm in school.) Clearly it fits in there with all the other Windows "quirks". I hadn't thought of that, to be honest.



Live and learn, indeed!!

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Because the recycling symbol is just wrong. I am not recycling the book/format, I am deleting it. So I replaced it with a trash can icon from some thread or another.

It may be called the recycling bin on Windows, but on Ubuntu it is called Trash, and thus on Ubuntu I have changed the icon. As in most things, Windows is wrong here, and it sounds stupid. Hey, let me recycle my files! Well, where am I reusing them?

Recycling is for materials that can be repurposed for new stuff, a paradigm that does not fit here.

However, I may heed your advice and not change the icon on my Windows install (when I get back to it, it's at home and right now I'm in school.) Clearly it fits in there with all the other Windows "quirks". I hadn't thought of that, to be honest.



Live and learn, indeed!!

I guess I don't give that much thought to icons. Long as I know what they do, they are ok with me. Apple IIRC always had a trashcan icon too. And wasn't trying to advise you, just curious. You should do exactly as you want to with your icons.

Helen

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

I guess I don't give that much thought to icons. Long as I know what they do, they are ok with me. Apple IIRC always had a trashcan icon too. And wasn't trying to advise you, just curious. You should do exactly as you want to with your icons.

Helen

Well, I'm taking it anyway, so there!

[kovidgoyal]

@eschwartz: Just FYI, recycling refers to the recycling of the storage space used by the file and not the file itself. And many linux desktops use trash bins with recycle symbols on them for trash, for example, the KDE Oxygen theme.

[eschwartz]

"The recycling of the storage space" is a little too deep for me. My files are thrown away, that is the main point as far as I'm concerned.

As a matter of curiosity, is that why the default Remove Books icon is the recycling symbol? Are you a KDE Oxygen man?

[kovidgoyal]

No, I dont use desktop environments. However, calibre icons are taken from many linux desktop icon projects, oxygen being one of them. The delete icon in calibre was originally from the oxygen project, the current one however, was custom designed for calibre by Kamil Tatara. (Most of the icons on the main toolbar and the calibre logo were all designed by him).