10-29-2013, 09:29 PM | #1 |
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Orange pins (pushpins or thumbtacks?)
Does anyone know what the orange pins represent? I'm just curious because I can't make out the rhyme or reason for their presence in Calibre. Sorry if this has been asked and answered but I couldn't find anything on it when I did a search in the forum. Thanks.
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10-29-2013, 10:03 PM | #2 | |
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Various PI used that (mostly) hidden column. Now it has been exposed along with additional features. Right-click one of the Pins |
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10-29-2013, 11:33 PM | #3 |
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10-29-2013, 11:53 PM | #4 | |
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Right-click on (the Marked) book: Now there is a orange PIN Icon at the list top I see a menu of actions to do actions (with/on) pins |
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10-30-2013, 12:11 AM | #5 | |
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I was hoping a right click on the pin might tell me the provenance of the pin. BR |
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10-30-2013, 11:44 PM | #6 |
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Thank you for your responses!
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10-31-2013, 08:00 PM | #7 |
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Another question.
Any way to get rid of the pushpins? On my copy of Calibre 1.8 they show me the books I excluded from the duplicate finder. I can't find a choice in Preferences or in the Find Duplicate plugin "customize". If I wanted to see them I would not have excluded them so having pins take up space which is already precious is not a good thing. |
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11-01-2013, 10:50 AM | #9 |
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Thanks for the reply.
I had already figured that out, but I use Find Duplicates regularly. I wonder when that "feature" was added. It says I have to uninstall Calibre to downgrade and if I would lose all my plugins and settings if I downgraded Calibre to an earlier version. Oh well, maybe Koval will add a setting to disable the pushpins in a future version. |
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The ability to 'mark' books was introduced internally a 'long time ago', but they weren't shown until the cover grid was implemented; where they initially appeared as a gold star imprinted on the cover which was easily missed. Addendum : Meanwhile perhaps the Mark books->Show marked books option could become Mark books->Show/Hide marked books toggle BR Last edited by BetterRed; 11-01-2013 at 04:48 PM. |
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11-01-2013, 10:41 PM | #11 | |
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As a side note a couple of years ago I wrote a short post pointing out that you can replace any or all of the icons in calibre. Edit: I had to zip the image because the forum doesn't allow attaching completely transparent images. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 11-01-2013 at 10:43 PM. |
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11-02-2013, 11:22 AM | #12 |
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I also wish there was a way to have the new feature behave like the old temp mark plugin, and not resize the number column. I never need to see the mark in list view. It's kind of nice in cover view(so I have no need for a transparent image), but I'd happily do away with the visual mark in cover view, if it meant I could get away from it in list view.
I used to use temp marks a lot, but don't like the resizing of the first column that happens every time now. Especially since it's often reduntandt as well (for instance, it shows up when I look at the list of books I've marked). |
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Thank you DoctorOhh,
Followed your instructions. . . pushpins gone. Unfortunately It's not the pushpins I don't like it's the SPACE they use. Guess I'll have to wait for the author of the plugin to put a setting in to disable the pushpins. If you don't want to see the marked pushpins follow the directions in the manual and substitute the attached image. Once done you can have as many marked books as you like but you won't see them marked. |
11-08-2013, 05:38 PM | #14 |
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Your mention of the context menu solved things for me. Thanks |
11-09-2013, 03:09 PM | #15 |
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If I replace the icon of the pin by a 1x1 gif (or png) would the size of the column shrink too?
I don't care about the color or look but I want the space back. It seems to be not possible to not show the pins at all or change the size or do anything if you don't need/want them. What a nonsense. *sigh* |
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