Zim

Change home page property on renaming the home page

Bug #1232771 reported by Harri K. Hiltunen
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Bug Description

Zim 0.59 on Linux Ubuntu 13.04

I changed the "Home" page's name to "Root", but clicking the Home button creates a new page named "Home" when I click it.
I try right-clicking the Home button to reassign it's destinaton, but nothing happens.
I had to find and change "File / Properties / Home Page:" to make everything work right.

Why not reassing the Home button's destination upon page name change?

When the toolbar is in "Icons and Text" mode, the button text still keeps saying "Home", although my home page's name is now "Root". If the text should change, you would need to truncate too long names to fit the button.

Tags: papercut 2min
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dennis123123123 (dennis123321) wrote :

Still as difficult in 0.60, I wouldn't have known how to change it if it wasn't mentionned in this bug report!

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mtibbi (marcio-tibirica) wrote :

The workaround for this problem, which is not a bug, but a functional characteristic, is every time you rename the "Home" page is also change the page name in the "Home Page" field in the "Properties" dialog box.

This characteristic can be irritating for some people, but I do not think it's a big problem for most people, because you are not going to change the "Home" page name too often. Perhaps this functional characteristic should be described in the manual, or perhaps a future update in the software could make the "Home Page" field change automatically every time you rename the "Home" page.

But I dont think the text "Home" in the menu bar should change according to page name defined by the user, because the word "Home" in the menu bar is used generically to define the starting page of the notebook.

Zim_0.63 Win_7

Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)
summary: - Home page renaming is difficult and incomplete
+ Change home page property on renaming the home page
Changed in zim:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
tags: added: 2min
tags: added: papercut
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