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Design a capability for users to categorise their books in bookworm and then filter by category...

When multiple books are selected for addition to Bookworm, the app freezes untill all books are parsed and added to the library. A progress bar can be shown showing the progress of the books being added and the application should not freeze.

It will be difficult for scrolling through a large number of books in cover view mode. So the following needs to be done:

1. Create a ListViewMode to list books by columns. Title and show other metadata like Author, Date Added to Library can be the columns. Sorting on each columns should be present. This can be like Noise ListView...
2. Paginate the Cover Image view to limit the number of covers to around 20 and show the latest read / added books first. The pagination view can be like slingshot...

because everything published in AppCenter is for elementary OS. It's a little redundant ;)

Pocket uses two type of Color Profile. "Inverted" and "Sepia". Implementation of this feature will be great for night time reading.

The About Dialog is coming up as a grey transparent box with a white spinner in the middle...

You should use those names on all the fies (Images, .desktop, gsettings) you include with your app, or else AppCenter will yell at you when you try to push it ;) Also, you should create an appdata file :)

See:

Philip-Scott/Notes-up#76
Philip-Scott/Notes-up#75

For an example, you can see https://github.com/Philip-Scott/Spice-up as i've still haven't updated the notes app to use IDs 😅

Are there any plans to have a regular GitHub release?

After the previous update, the ebook reader is not working. It can't show any content.
Error code:

[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 14:51:40.653114] utils.vala:346: Started file operation[READ_FILE], for path=false, filename=
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 14:51:40.665250] utils.vala:488: Failure in File Operation [operation=READ_FILE,path=false, filename=]: Failed to open file 'false': No such file or directory
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 14:51:40.665305] utils.vala:491: Completed file operation[READ_FILE]...
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 14:51:40.665361] ePubReader.vala:173: Completed extracting location of content files in ebook. Number of content files = 0
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 14:51:40.665393] ePubReader.vala:178: Starting to renderPage for direction[] on book located at /media/choyan/Sherlock/Books/f-BeastsFind/Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find T (21)/Fantastic Beasts and Where to F - J. K. Rowling.epub
[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 14:51:40.665435] ePubReader.vala:199: Book has a CURRENT_LOCATION set at :13
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 14:51:40.665461] ePubReader.vala:221: No contents determined for the book at location [13], no rendering possible.

Currently, to Delete a book, we need to select a button, then the system will start selecting it. This behavior can be improved by the idea of how elementary is using it in its system. As this is a universal behavior across elementary, I think bookworm should have it too.

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Apphub failed to build with liftoff. Here is the log:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: syntax error in debian/control at line 18: block lacks the 'Package' field
W: Unmet build-dependency in source
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
dpkg-buildpackage: source package com.github.babluboy.bookworm
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.5.2
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution xenial
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by babluboy <[email protected]>
 dpkg-source --before-build flightcheck
dpkg-source: error: syntax error in flightcheck/debian/control at line 18: block lacks the 'Package' field
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build flightcheck gave error exit status 25

Affects: 0.5.2 release

AppCenter Dashboard ran desktop-file-validate on your project's .desktop file and received the following errors:

repository/data/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop: error: value "0.4.3" for key "Version" in group "Desktop Entry" is not a known version
repository/data/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop: hint: value "GTK;Office;Graphics;" for key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" contains more than one main category; application might appear more than once in the application menu

For more information, see the Desktop Entry Specification

Affects: v0.4.3 release

Whenever I try to click on those 2 header buttons, they do not provide appropriate interaction. They should be rounded properly.

Have a quick and easy way to start reading when a user first opens their app :)

This can easily be done using Granite.Widgets.WelcomeScreen

Currently the cover image updated by the context menu only takes effect on closing and re-opening Bookworm. Fix this by updating the Library View with the new image for the book as soon as the User selects a new image for the cover in the context menu

During uploading on Google Drive, I can select files using arrow keys and they look like this in the file chooser.

Bookworm currently can't select by arrow key while importing books to the library. Besides, whenever I try to use the arrow key, the picker gets slow and also unable to use mouse at the moment.

I feel a little bit of padding needed on the upperside of the bottom menus.

Currently, it doesn't have any padding beside it. It needs some I think

Is it possible to include an option to sync the book list with https://www.librarything.com/ or to import an online database from LibraryThing into bookworm?

Add tag dropdown filter to allow user to choose multiple tags
show selected tags on footer as a visual indication of filter criteria

Showing the correct image of the book cover - At the moment unless the ebook specifies a size for the image the image fills the whole content area and appears stretched. Handle this situation by specifying the size such that the image shows nicely

The File Chooser should remember the last location used while adding eBooks to library

You don't need it on git. It's only going to cause problems ;)

There is a lag while Bookworm is closing as the state of each book in the library is saved to database. This lag increases when the number of books in the library is more.

Fix the issue so that the window is closed quickly and the process for saving the state of the books is done in the background

The screenshot in the AppData points to a file that doesn't exist anymore. Should update that :)

Also, you should use the raw subdomain as in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/babluboy/bookworm/master/screenshots/...

As per elementary Human Interface Guidelines, you should make your app remember the state it was left on. This includes:

• Window size
• Window state (fullscreen?)
• Current book opened
• Remember the page you're on, per book (You can make use of your database for this)

For the things not on the dabatase, you can use GSettings to save them :)

Apphub failed to build with liftoff. Here is the log:

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I: creating base tarball [/var/cache/liftoff/xenial-amd64-base.tgz]
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dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: syntax error in debian/control at line 18: block lacks the 'Package' field
W: Unmet build-dependency in source
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
dpkg-buildpackage: source package com.github.babluboy.bookworm
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.5.1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution xenial
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by babluboy <[email protected]>
 dpkg-source --before-build flightcheck
dpkg-source: error: syntax error in flightcheck/debian/control at line 18: block lacks the 'Package' field
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build flightcheck gave error exit status 25

Affects: 0.5.1 release

AppCenter Dashboard ran desktop-file-validate on your project's .desktop file and received the following errors:

repository/data/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop: error: value "0.4.3" for key "Version" in group "Desktop Entry" is not a known version

For more information, see the Desktop Entry Specification

Affects: 0.4.3 release

Initial digging suggests uses of the poppler utility pdftohtml and then use the output HTML files on WebKit...

AppCenter Dashboard ran appstreamcli validate on your project's .appdata.xml file and
received the following errors:

W - com.github.babluboy.bookworm.appdata.xml:com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop:11
    Found tag '_p' in 'description' section. Only 'p', 'ul' and 'ol' are allowed.

W - com.github.babluboy.bookworm.appdata.xml:com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop:9
    Found invalid tag: '_summary'. Non-standard tags must be prefixed with "x-".

W - com.github.babluboy.bookworm.appdata.xml:com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop:8
    Found invalid tag: '_name'. Non-standard tags must be prefixed with "x-".

E - com.github.babluboy.bookworm.appdata.xml:com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop
    The component is missing a long description. Components of this type must have a 
    long description.

W - com.github.babluboy.bookworm.appdata.xml:com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop:16
    Found tag '_p' in 'description' section. Only 'p', 'ul' and 'ol' are allowed.

Validation failed.

For more information, see:

• The AppStream Quickstart Guide
• The AppStream Metadata Specification

Affects: 0.4.3 release

Add a context menu for each book in the Library View to show:
1- Update Cover Image : Should open a window and allow user to choose a image
2- Update Book Title if the default cover is being used: Text Entry with current title populated
3- Add tags to a book : Text Entry with current tags populated
4- Add rating for the book : Usual 5 stars to choose from

As the application currently supports only the ePub format, I think it's better that the file picker to act like one. It will specifically show only ePub format files. Currently, there is an option available I can see in the dialog, to select only ePub files. But it is not working properly.

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You should inject some CSS to the webview so that the text looks flush with the rest of the app like on the mockup :)

Is there a reason you're specifically using ppa:webkit-team/ppa instead of the one that's included with the system? If not, you should consider using the default one instead :)

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• Package is not valid reverse domain name scheme

Affects: v0.4.2 release

Bookworm looks extremely promising and I hope that it will quickly gain popularity beyond your main target operating system. I happen to prefer Solus instead of elementary OS. Is there any chance that you can look into making your application look great with the arc-theme and perhaps make it more distro-agnostic? See: https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

Currently the List of Contents are just URLs to the various sections of the eBook. These should be made more descriptive by providing the title of chapters for example. The Table Of Contents provided in the ePUB can be utilized for this purpose

After Deleting the books, the Library view should be refreshed. Currently, it's causing some problems. After removing 2 books from the Library, its showing blank spaces in the deleted books area. I've deleted 2 books from the Library from the bottom area.

Yeah, the icon is missing like you said ;)

But as per the rest of the elementary apps, you should add the About item to the .desktop's as a quick list item instead of adding it on the menu. You know, for consistency :)

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Affects: 0.4.3 release

Having a side bar to show table of contents instead of a contents page so that the user can flip back easily to the page being read if he decides not to jump to a different page. And if the user does decide to jump to another page then the content side bar should disappear

If you could open ebooks right from your file manager into the app it would be awesome!

Bonus points: If the book you opened was already added before, and you were on a certain page, open it on that page

In the library view, add a progress bar under each book to show the read progress

Houston was unable to communicate with elementary's repository, and therefor
unable to publish your files in the testing repository. Please re-run houston,
or contact a Houston developer for help.

Affects: 0.5.3 release

It would be great, If we can import multiple files to the Library at once. Currently, we have to import books one by one.

I think Table of content button only should be available, whenever a user is reading a page. I would like to propose a design concept here from Photos app.
Just like the Photos app, Bookworm will show show a "Library" navigation button to navigate to Library view. And maybe sidebar of the app will show the table of contents, whenever a user clicks on the expand button below. Which can also be Hidden.

Currently the cover image of any ebook is stretched to the full width. If it would be possible life "Easy Ebook Viewer" to specify the cover image and give it a certain width to be stretched. So that, the Cover Image would look much beautiful

AppCenter Dashboard ran desktop-file-validate on your project's .desktop file and received the following errors:

repository/data/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop: error: value "0.4" for key "Version" in group "Desktop Entry" is not a known version
repository/data/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop: error: value "GTK;Office" for string list key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" does not have a semicolon (';') as trailing character
repository/data/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.desktop: error: file contains multiple keys named "Type" in group "Desktop Entry"

For more information, see the Desktop Entry Specification

Affects: v0.4.2 release