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koreader / kindlepdfviewer

(DEPRECATED, please use KOReader instead) A PDF (plus DJVU, ePub, TXT, CHM, FB2, HTML...) viewer made for e-ink framebuffer devices, using muPDF, djvulibre, crengine
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hide the technical folders in documents folder. #759

Closed th0mass closed 11 years ago

th0mass commented 11 years ago

It would be a good idea to hide the folders which has a name ends with ".sdr" . This way navigation through files could be easier.

chrox commented 11 years ago

The "sidecar" (sdr) folders are generated by the native system to hold metadata of the documents. So it has nothing to do with KPV. See http://www.blog.asafewebsite.com/2011/06/amazon-kindle-forensics.html

th0mass commented 11 years ago

I know this. what i mean is different: when I use KPV I see this folders on the file manager list. they can be not listed.

tigran123 commented 11 years ago

I would say it is a bad idea to enforce such a policy, at the very least in the Unrestricted mode all directories and files should be visible.

chrox commented 11 years ago

On firmware 5.* each amazon document (mobi and azw files) will have a "sidecar" folder in the documents directory. One may need to skip several pages of "sidecars" in order to find certain document in KPV's Filemanager. So I think it can be justified to set that policy. Anyway in the future the exclude file pattern should be editable by the users. It will become a filtering mechanism.

chrox commented 11 years ago

And PR is sent in #761.

houqp commented 11 years ago

I would prefer to add a config entry in settings.reader.lua so users themselves can decide what to filter.

chrox commented 11 years ago

Close this issue since PR is merged.

chrox commented 11 years ago

We should not expect that all users could edit the src code in a proper way to config the behavior of KPV. Some even don't have a decent text editor to do the job. The ultimate way is to provide a unified interface inside the KPV reader for configuration.

houqp commented 11 years ago

yeah, but that has a long way to go. ;p

th0mass commented 11 years ago

Sorry for the misleading title and thanks for your responses.