Re:Announcing Calibre 2.0
by Touche on Saturday August 23, 2014 @12:21AM
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Calibre makes it dead simple to manage a library of ebooks and allows you to do just about anything that can be done with them. That's the definition of a good UI. Whether it follows modern design trends is irrelevant. A UI overhaul would be a terrible idea.
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I disagree. The UI is extremely messy, and far from streamlined. I couldn't figure out how to do basic management tasks at first.
Re:Announcing Calibre 2.0
by dredmorbius on Saturday August 23, 2014 @08:33PM
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I agree with you that the calibre UI could use help.
*Being specific on where exactly it's deficient would be useful. "It's clunky" really isn't actionable criticism.
My own comments are sparse largely as I've found other elements (mostly the readers) so abysmal that I make little use of Calibre.
Re:Announcing Calibre 2.0
by michaelmrose on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:44AM
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You realize you can tell it to use your system default to read a given format right its under behavior in preferences
Re:Announcing Calibre 2.0
by michaelmrose on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:43AM
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Which tasks are hard to accomplish?
Those are very undefined and user-specific complaints you have. And I've seen nothing in your post that justifies a full UI rewrite. Perhaps some changes, to cater for new/novice/confused users, but a UI rewrite is just a ridiculous thing to request.