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bordaigorl / remy

Remy, an online&offline manager for the reMarkable tablet
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Feedback (WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04) #17

Closed DeepMarks closed 3 years ago

DeepMarks commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this wonderful application, works like a charm!

As requested here is some feedback:

  1. Exporting documents works fine, however it doesn't seem to support epub/ebooks. I guess that's intended?

  2. Importing files doesn't work at all on my system. The info panel simply rejects the upload of PDFs.

  3. No matter where I put remy-banner.png it doesn't recognize it. Tried to adapt the config.json file but had no sucess so far. Any advice?

Looking forward to your response and already stoked for new features.

Thanks again!

bordaigorl commented 3 years ago
  • Exporting documents works fine, however it doesn't seem to support epub/ebooks. I guess that's intended?

Yes, but it's just because I don't use them. I think that internally they are converted to pdf, so it could be just a matter of hooking the export functions to the right files. Initially I thought I would have had to reimplement an HTML renderer to render the epub from Remy, and so I just decided I was not going to support it. I would certainly help if anybody wanted to contribute this feature.

  • Importing files doesn't work at all on my system. The info panel simply rejects the upload of PDFs.

This is weird. I may have misunderstood the drag&drop API. As a workaround I am going to add a context menu so you don't need to rely on the drag&drop.

  • No matter where I put remy-banner.png it doesn't recognize it. Tried to adapt the config.json file but had no sucess so far. Any advice?

Have you installed remarkable-splash on the tablet? If so, try with an absolute path in use_banner.

DeepMarks commented 3 years ago

Yes, but it's just because I don't use them. I think that internally they are converted to pdf, so it could be just a matter of hooking the export functions to the right files. Initially I thought I would have had to reimplement an HTML renderer to render the epub from Remy, and so I just decided I was not going to support it. I would certainly help if anybody wanted to contribute this feature.

Yeah I thought that was probably the case, I don't use them much either but might look into it.

This is weird. I may have misunderstood the drag&drop API. As a workaround I am going to add a context menu so you don't need to rely on the drag&drop.

That would be great, thanks!

Have you installed remarkable-splash on the tablet? If so, try with an absolute path in use_banner.

It seems I have overlooked the necessity of installing remarkable-splash. Any chance you could give me a short instruction how to install it on RM2 without breaking it? I don't seem to find one on the page itself.

bordaigorl commented 3 years ago

Any chance you could give me a short instruction how to install it on RM2 without breaking it?

Ah I just realised remarkable-splash will probably not work on RM2...

bordaigorl commented 3 years ago

Importing files doesn't work at all on my system. The info panel simply rejects the upload of PDFs.

A question about this: when you say "rejects" do you mean that the panel shows the dashed landing zone for the drag&drop but when you drop nothing happens, or is it that the panel does not react to drag&drop at all? Note that the import function is only enabled for "live" sources, which means it is disabled if you are loading a local backup.

DeepMarks commented 3 years ago

Ah I just realised remarkable-splash will probably not work on RM2...

Oh I see, well it's not that important as long as the application itself is working fine

DeepMarks commented 3 years ago

A question about this: when you say "rejects" do you mean that the panel shows the dashed landing zone for the drag&drop but when you drop nothing happens, or is it that the panel does not react to drag&drop at all? Note that the import function is only enabled for "live" sources, which means it is disabled if you are loading a local backup.

The panel doesn't react at all if I drag&drop a pdf stored on my computer, I'm connected to the RM via USB-SSH so I guess it should be working or am I missing something?

bordaigorl commented 3 years ago

The "landing zone" is the empty space below the title/details. Would help to see a video of the interaction

DeepMarks commented 3 years ago

That's what it looks like for me, might be due to my WSL setup...

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44670190/111500285-1da7e380-8744-11eb-8b00-8c61aef0529f.mp4

DeepMarks commented 3 years ago

Additionally, I just noticed that the RSync source takes longer to startup than usb, I thought it should be the other way around since RSync is only syncing a part of the files?

DeepMarks commented 3 years ago

The context menu works great, thanks for adding it.