[Enhancement] Suggestions to make the Book details panel look nicer

[Jonatan Nyberg]

Suggestions to make the Book details panel look nicer:

1. Remove colons (:) from the categories in the Book details panel
2. Align all the categories to the right

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

FWIW: I think the change of titles to grey (#888) makes them hard to read. I use light mode, and #444 is readable but still different from the text.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

444 is too close to text color but I am ok with 666

[cmfy (cmfy)]

Can we customise the titles' colors?

[cmfy (cmfy)]

may I request a lighter color for the dark theme? It's barely visible in my preferred color profile, see:

[JP (jecilop)]

Possibly, due to the change which looks nice, there is a lot of wasted space at the left of the details column now. Actually, I think it's just more obvious to the eye now since de-emphasizing the field names.

It is possible to abbreviate some of these field names in the display?

The widest I have displayed is "Count:Authors" which end up sending everything appx 1 inch from the left.

Could abbreviations such as "Pub" for "Published" date or "Mod" for "Modified" date and "Ct:Authors" for "Count:Authors" or "Count:A's", etc....

The key with any of it is to get the long name and others more inline to take up less space in the details panel.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

THe amount of space is the same as before, and you can use whatever
title you like for your custom columns including shorter ones.

[JP (jecilop)]

They aren't custom columns. I'm referring to the standard column names that display. I included a photo above to illustrate this.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Count:Authors is not a standard column.

[JP (jecilop)]

Bad example on my part as I did forget I made those oh so long ago.

Still, the suggestion exists as I cannot modify names like Published or Modified and such..but I apparently never have a good suggestion. Just a consideration. Thanks.

[Jonatan Nyberg (bugreporter41)]

Is it possible to add the same appearance to the Book details on the Content server?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.