[GUI Plugin] Reading List

[JimmXinu]

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Glob = A lump of a semi-liquid substance

That's close to what Merriam-Webster said. So I checked Wiktionary, which is helpful for a lot of more niche/industry terms.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

That's close to what Merriam-Webster said. So I checked Wiktionary, which is helpful for a lot of more niche/industry terms.

It's what the Oxford English dictionary said. I looked it up using the Oxford English dictionary that Kobo now uses.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Attached

2020-10-23
- snarkophilus' Move up/down 10 & to top/bottom of list in Edit.
- Fix for not always detecting 'last' or 'first' selected item correctly in Edit.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I did look at it and give you some comments: PR #1

I think your icons are fine, it's the bugs that concern me.

snarkophilus rightly pointed out that the problem I found testing his code wasn't actually in his code. In my defense, I don't use Edit list.

I still find the wait times involved in using the new features to move many items in larges lists up and down excessive--think bubble sort. But again, I don't use Edit.

Is it acceptable as is, or does snarkophilus need to go figure out how to move items without bubbling?

[snarkophilus]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I still find the wait times involved in using the new features to move many items in larges lists up and down excessive--think bubble sort. But again, I don't use Edit.

I agree that the wait times aren't good at all. I'll point out that a single longish wait is still better than clicking the up botton as many times as there are items in your list .

Is it acceptable as is, or does snarkophilus need to go figure out how to move items without bubbling?

I'll keep looking at this, especially as it's likely that my main readling list seems to grow over time and not shrink .

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by snarkophilus

I agree that the wait times aren't good at all. I'll point out that a single longish wait is still better than clicking the up botton as many times as there are items in your list .

Select all the books above, press down once. Work smarter, not harder.

Or look at how that works and how it could be duplicated to reduce the looping.

Not something I care about, but I wonder why nobody's ever asked for an add-to-the-top setting as an alternative to the standard add-to-the-bottom lists? Or maybe it came up before I came in.

[ownedbycats]

I do recall thinking "hmm, it'd be nice to add this to the top of the list" once or twice but I don't think I ever posted about it.

[snarkophilus]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Select all the books above, press down once. Work smarter, not harder.

Oh you did mention that before, and now I remember that this was a good idea ... and I'd somehow forgotten about it already.

Or look at how that works and how it could be duplicated to reduce the looping.

Will look at this a bit more. I also do use the move up/down 10 rows a bit (often with a few clicks to move 20/30/40 rows), but that isn't a slow operation so I could do that the current way I do now if I can optimise the move to top/bottom.

[manawydan]

I shouldn't have updated the plugin.

I don't know when but some time ago the "show default list" shortcut must have been switched and is now obviously 14 (?? f14 I guess).
How to I change it back to the old shift+v instead of the da** f14??

I'll never again update a plugin - there is no use for it if it is working and only trouble.
:/

[ownedbycats]

Preferences (Ctrl+P) > Shortcuts > Search for "Reading List"

[JimmXinu]

Reading List doesn't assign any keyboard shortcuts to actual keys--it just makes them available for you to assign as you see fit.

Calibre, by default, appears to assigns Shift-V to 'Continue reading previous book'. You may need to unassign it (by changing that to a 'Custom' key setting) before you can re-assign it.

Also, in Reading List config, under the 'Other' tab, there's a button for 'Keyboard Shortcuts' that will take you directly to RL's shortcuts.

[manawydan]

Thank you.

[ownedbycats]

A small request: Could it be possible to have an optional confirmation prompt when removing multiple books from the list? Thank you.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Attached

2020-10-30
- Apply persist_shortcut to view actions when Calibre >= v5.4 so view shortcuts aren't discarded as easily. Calibre PR #1246

2020-10-23
- snarkophilus' Move up/down 10 & to top/bottom of list in Edit.
- Fix for not always detecting 'last' or 'first' selected item correctly in Edit.

2020-10-11
- New optional list features: Put any List's View action in the PI top menu and an option to not sort the books in list order on view. Thanks to kiwidude himself for these changes.

UPDATE - snarkophilus' changes not included yet.

[Amon_Re]

Hi,

I noticed that something broke between Calibre updates and plugin updates on my system, I can not add books to my reading list anymore nor can i sync the contents of my device.

I don't really get any errors unless i select the "Move to list" action in the plugin's menu:

calibre, version 5.4.1
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setSelected'

calibre 5.4.1  embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Linux-5.8.0-7625-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '5.8.0-7625-generic', '#26~1603389471~20.04~f6b125f-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 22 20:35:49 UTC ')
Python 3.8.5
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (1, 35, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (1, 35, 0) && Embed Comic Metadata (1, 5, 0) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (1, 35, 0) && KFX Input (1, 35, 0) && Kobo Utilities (2, 11, 8) && Obok DeDRM (6, 5, 4) && Reading List (1, 6, 15)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.reading_list.action", line 403, in _move_selected_to_list
    d = MoveBooksDialog(self.gui, lists_in_use, list_names)
  File "calibre_plugins.reading_list.dialogs", line 265, in __init__
    self.dest_list.item(0).setSelected(True)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setSelected'

Plugin version is 1.6.15
Calibre version is 5.4.1

OS is POP OS 20.04 (Ubuntu derivative)

Any idea's on how to troubleshoot this? I don't mind losing the current list.