Renegade Reader Theme For Ubooquity 3.1

Hey Dennis,

I'm still running some tests and trying to brainstorm this, but I keep running into a few problems.

1.  It seems as if Ubooquity treats multiple shared folders under a single category the same way it treats a single shared folder under single category with "bypass single root folder" turned off... which inserts a page between the home and library pages... which, in turn, screws up the dynamic navigation on the home page and the dynamic breadcrumbs in the libraries.

2. When you launch a scan, Ubooquity assigns a unique numeric id to every file and folder it scans.  Then, it uses those numeric ids in its URLs to access the associated files/folders.  Problem being, there is no way to predict what number Ubooquity will assign to your main comic/book/mag/doc/etc page(s) - making dynamic navigation and breadcrumbs MUCH harder to achieve.

3. I'm pretty sure Ubooquity only displays the latest category.  So, Latest Comics would be the latest comics across both shared folders - making sliders for both on the home page pretty much impossible. 

Personally, I never even thought about adding multiple shared folders under a single category, but a can see the need.  I have over 50,000 comics alone.  So, I understand. :)

What would help tremendously is if Ubooquity treated multiple shared folders under a single category like an expansion of a single library of comics/books/mags/docs rather than treating them as separate folders.  Like when you expand your RAID array with a new drive rather than adding a new drive letter.  I mean, it makes sense since the latest and random comics/books/etc already do that. <shugs>

Thoughts?  I'm open.  You got a vision?  Spill it. LOL!

Phoe .. 

The system does something... 

This is the admin are where we have multiple shared folders with same category
This is what you can see also here .. 

http://10.1.1.104:2202/comics

Above Example when I enter this I see the "correct"  layout for what we need when we have mutiple libraries.


 

But this part is not visible in the home page When I press strips or strips2 I get the correct ID of where the other library start
So you have correct pages but in the homepage it is not adapted.

Library 1 .. and I can also go to the 2nd one, but right now it is manually.

So for me there is actually no need to have a start or end as all data seems there 

Is that helpful ?

LOL!  You just posted the exact behavior I described above.

The strips and strips2 page you showed me mimic the exact behavior of "bypass single root folder" being off using 1 shared folder per library under a single category. I cannot fix that.  That is an Ubooquity thing.  It's because, as I stated above, Ubooquity does not treat shared library folders in the same way it treats them when displaying the random or latest categories.  It separates them.  Thus, you get the page between the home page and the libraries.  And that creates even more problems for the home page navigation because it will HAVE to show strips and strips2 under the "Browse" tab rather than "Comics" as the category.

So, with the current theme, I would have to rework the entire navigation system on the home page, trap for the strips and strips2 page between the home page and libraries, then rework the breadcrumb navigation throughout the libraries.

And while I "can" and "will" do this, if necessary, the better solution (IMHO) is to have Tom address the way Ubooquity handles multiple shared folders under a single category.  

Why?  Because if you want the extra page that is generated when "bypass single root folder" is off, you can already do that.  What you currently can't do is skip that page if you have multiple shared folders under 1 category.  However, again, if Ubooquity treated multiple shared library folders under 1 category as 1 drive rather than insisting on separating them, it would not create the extra page unless you told it to by leaving "bypass single root folder" off.

I know that Tom already has a list of stuff to do and that he is extremely busy for the next few weeks or so.  But I will ask about this and see if he has any plans on addressing this or even views it as a viable solution BEFORE I decide how to proceed with fixing the theme.

Thank you for your help in this matter Dennis.  And if I do need to completely overhaul the theme, I will probably be asking you more questions about how you think we should address the 'offending' extra page issue in the theme.

Peace!

G

Thanks Gary
I know that it is a lot of work to fix and change that. You are welcome asking more questions. The new version I have on a separate VM so I can do a lot of testing without touching my existing environment ;)
Where I can I will help

Awesome!  I posted a request to Tom in the appropriate thread, explained the problem, and will wait for a response before proceeding.  

Rest assured, one way or another, I'll come up with something that will work for your setup once I've heard back.

Thanks,

G

I'm also busy with Github's co-pilot and Claude Sonnet .. 
first try after 10 min is promising ;)