Calibre Viewer: Suggestions about the Usability of the TOC

ibu · 12-16-2015, 07:47 AM

1
I love to read magazines with the viewer.

The TOC is typically extensive.

The single entries are often longer than the column width of the TOC

Because there's no line break in the TOC viewer, you cannot read the complete entry, you must hover to get it.

My suggestion:
I would love to get a line break inside the TOC viewer.

2
Users could configure a font size which fits to their eye-sight.

But that has no effect to the TOC

My suggestion:
The font size settings should take effect to the TOC

What do you think about these suggestions please?

Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 12-16-2015, 08:13 AM

1 Hover your mouse over the toc entries, and you will see the full entry for those that are truncated in the tooltip

2 There is no font size setting, what you are talking about is the zoom function of the reader. That is not a size. The font size of the toc is the same as the font size of the rest of the calibre UI, which you can change centrally in the calibre preferences.

ibu · 12-16-2015, 08:19 AM

Thanks for your answer.

1
I wrote above about "hover". But that is not the same as to see a complete TOC without any extra interaction.

2
I know that the TOC is of the same size as the GUI. I suggest to change that behaviour and to couple it with the text of books.

kovidgoyal · 12-16-2015, 08:26 AM

1 Sure it is not the same, IMO it is superior, I dont want my toc view cluttered up by multiple lines of long text

2 It cannot be the same, because there is not single "size" for the text. Once again, zooming is done via a magnification factor, trying to apply the same magnification factor to the UI and the text is meaningless because they have different base font sizes, in fact, the text can have multiple base font sizes.

ibu · 12-16-2015, 08:31 AM

1
Ok, I have to respect that.
In my view, it is not clutter, because it is important information.

2
I cannot suggest anything technical for a solution. I just wanted to point out, that a TOC is kind of part of the content. And when the content changes it's size (don't matter how, by zoom or user styles, whatever) the TOC font size should be change equally.

But it was just a suggestion, not more, not less

12-16-2015, 07:47 AM	#1
ibu Addict Posts: 264 Karma: 9246 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: Kobo H20, iPhone 6+, Macbook Pro	Calibre Viewer: Suggestions about the Usability of the TOC 1 I love to read magazines with the viewer. The TOC is typically extensive. The single entries are often longer than the column width of the TOC Because there's no line break in the TOC viewer, you cannot read the complete entry, you must hover to get it. My suggestion: I would love to get a line break inside the TOC viewer. 2 Users could configure a font size which fits to their eye-sight. But that has no effect to the TOC My suggestion: The font size settings should take effect to the TOC What do you think about these suggestions please? Thanks.

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12-16-2015, 08:13 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,251 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	1 Hover your mouse over the toc entries, and you will see the full entry for those that are truncated in the tooltip 2 There is no font size setting, what you are talking about is the zoom function of the reader. That is not a size. The font size of the toc is the same as the font size of the rest of the calibre UI, which you can change centrally in the calibre preferences.

12-16-2015, 08:19 AM	#3
ibu Addict Posts: 264 Karma: 9246 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: Kobo H20, iPhone 6+, Macbook Pro	Thanks for your answer. 1 I wrote above about "hover". But that is not the same as to see a complete TOC without any extra interaction. 2 I know that the TOC is of the same size as the GUI. I suggest to change that behaviour and to couple it with the text of books.

12-16-2015, 08:26 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,251 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	1 Sure it is not the same, IMO it is superior, I dont want my toc view cluttered up by multiple lines of long text 2 It cannot be the same, because there is not single "size" for the text. Once again, zooming is done via a magnification factor, trying to apply the same magnification factor to the UI and the text is meaningless because they have different base font sizes, in fact, the text can have multiple base font sizes.

12-16-2015, 08:31 AM	#5
ibu Addict Posts: 264 Karma: 9246 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: Kobo H20, iPhone 6+, Macbook Pro	1 Ok, I have to respect that. In my view, it is not clutter, because it is important information. 2 I cannot suggest anything technical for a solution. I just wanted to point out, that a TOC is kind of part of the content. And when the content changes it's size (don't matter how, by zoom or user styles, whatever) the TOC font size should be change equally. But it was just a suggestion, not more, not less

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