Merge from trunk

Changelog.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,66 @@
 #  new recipes:
 #    - title: 
 
+- version: 0.8.7
+  date: 2011-06-24
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Connect to iTunes: You now need to tell iTunes to keep its own copy of every ebook. Do this in iTunes by going to Preferences->Advanced and setting the 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' option. To learn about why this is necessary, see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140260"
+      type: major
+
+    - title: "Add a couple of date related functions to the calibre template langauge to get 'todays' date and create text based on the value of a date type field"
+
+    - title: "Improved reading of metadata from FB2 files, with support for reading isbns, tags, published date, etc."
+
+    - title: "Driver for the Imagine IMEB5"
+      tickets: [800642]
+
+    - title: "Show the currently used network proxies in Preferences->Miscellaneous"
+
+    - title: "Kobo Touch driver: Show Favorites as a device collection. Various other minor fixes."
+
+    - title: "Content server now sends the Content-Disposition header when sending ebook files."
+
+    - title: "Allow search and replace on comments custom columns."
+
+    - title: "Add a new action 'Quick View' to show the books in your library by the author/tags/series/etc. of the currently selected book, in a separate window. You can add it to your toolbar or right click menu by going to Preferences->Toolbars."
+
+    - title: "Get Books: Add libri.de as a book source. Fix a bug that caused some books downloads to fail. Fixes to the Legimi and  beam-ebooks.de stores"
+      tickets: [799367]
+  
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Fix a memory leak that could result in the leaking of several MB of memory with large libraries"
+      tickets: [800952]
+
+    - title: "Fix the read metadata from format button in the edit metadata dialog using the wrong timezone when setting published date"
+      tickets: [799777]
+
+    - title: "Generating catalog: Fix occassional file in use errors when generating catalogs on windows"
+
+    - title: "Fix clicking on News in Tag Browser not working in non English locales."
+      tickets: [799471]
+
+    - title: "HTML Input: Fix a regression in 0.8.6 that caused CSS stylesheets to be ignored"
+      tickets: [799171]
+
+    - title: "Fix a regression that caused restore database to stop working on some windows sytems"
+
+    - title: "EPUB Output: Convert <br> tags with text in them into <divs> as ADE cannot handle them."
+      tickets: [794427]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Le Temps
+    - Perfil
+    - Financial Times UK
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: "Daytona Beach Journal"
+      author: BRGriff
+
+    - title: "El club del ebook and Frontline"
+      author: Darko Miletic
+
+
 - version: 0.8.6
   date: 2011-06-17
 

recipes/financial_times_uk.recipe

@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2010-2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
 '''
-ft.com
+www.ft.com/uk-edition
 '''
 from calibre import strftime
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class FinancialTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title                 = u'Financial Times - UK printed edition'
+    title                 = 'Financial Times - UK printed edition'
     __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description           = 'Financial world news'
+    description           = "The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy."
+    publisher             = 'The Financial Times Ltd.'
+    category              = 'news, finances, politics, UK, World'
     oldest_article        = 2
     language              = 'en_GB'
     max_articles_per_feed = 250
@@ -17,14 +19,24 @@ class FinancialTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     use_embedded_content  = False
     needs_subscription    = True
     encoding              = 'utf8'
-    simultaneous_downloads= 1
-    delay                 = 1
+    publication_type      = 'newspaper'
+    cover_url             = strftime('http://specials.ft.com/vtf_pdf/%d%m%y_FRONT1_LON.pdf')
+    masthead_url          = 'http://im.media.ft.com/m/img/masthead_main.jpg'
     LOGIN                 = 'https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier/login'
     INDEX                 = 'http://www.ft.com/uk-edition'
     PREFIX                = 'http://www.ft.com'
 
+    conversion_options = {
+                          'comment'          : description
+                        , 'tags'             : category
+                        , 'publisher'        : publisher
+                        , 'language'         : language
+                        , 'linearize_tables' : True
+                        }
+
     def get_browser(self):
         br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
+        br.open(self.INDEX)
         if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
             br.open(self.LOGIN)
             br.select_form(name='loginForm')
@@ -33,29 +45,34 @@ class FinancialTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
             br.submit()
         return br
 
-    keep_only_tags    = [ dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'cont'}) ]
-    remove_tags_after = dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'copyright'})
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['fullstory fullstoryHeader','fullstory fullstoryBody','ft-story-header','ft-story-body','index-detail']})]
     remove_tags = [
                       dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'floating-con'})
                      ,dict(name=['meta','iframe','base','object','embed','link'])
+                     ,dict(attrs={'class':['storyTools','story-package','screen-copy','story-package separator','expandable-image']})
                   ]
     remove_attributes = ['width','height','lang']
 
     extra_css = """
-                body{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
-                h2{font-size:large;}
-                .ft-story-header{font-size:xx-small;}
-                .ft-story-body{font-size:small;}
-                a{color:#003399;}
+                body{font-family: Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif}
+                h2{font-size:large}
+                .ft-story-header{font-size: x-small}
                 .container{font-size:x-small;}
                 h3{font-size:x-small;color:#003399;}
                 .copyright{font-size: x-small}
+                img{margin-top: 0.8em; display: block}
+                .lastUpdated{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small}
+                .byline,.ft-story-body,.ft-story-header{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif}
                 """
 
     def get_artlinks(self, elem):
         articles = []
         for item in elem.findAll('a',href=True):
-            url   = self.PREFIX + item['href']
+            rawlink = item['href']
+            if rawlink.startswith('http://'):
+               url = rawlink
+            else:
+               url   = self.PREFIX + rawlink
             title = self.tag_to_string(item)
             date = strftime(self.timefmt)
             articles.append({
@@ -86,5 +103,28 @@ class FinancialTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
         return feeds
 
     def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        return self.adeify_images(soup)
-
+        items = ['promo-box','promo-title',
+                 'promo-headline','promo-image',
+                 'promo-intro','promo-link','subhead']
+        for item in items:
+            for it in soup.findAll(item):
+                it.name = 'div'
+                it.attrs = []
+        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
+            del item['style']
+        for item in soup.findAll('a'):
+            limg = item.find('img')
+            if item.string is not None:
+               str = item.string
+               item.replaceWith(str)
+            else:
+               if limg:
+                  item.name = 'div'
+                  item.attrs = []
+               else:
+                   str = self.tag_to_string(item)
+                   item.replaceWith(str)
+        for item in soup.findAll('img'):
+            if not item.has_key('alt'):
+               item['alt'] = 'image'
+        return soup

src/calibre/constants.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 __appname__   = u'calibre'
-numeric_version = (0, 8, 6)
+numeric_version = (0, 8, 7)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 

src/calibre/customize/builtins.py

@@ -1378,6 +1378,14 @@ class StoreNextoStore(StoreBase):
     formats = ['EPUB', 'PDF']
     affiliate = True
 
+class StoreOpenBooksStore(StoreBase):
+    name = 'Open Books'
+    description = u'Comprehensive listing of DRM free ebooks from a variety of sources provided by users of calibre.'
+    actual_plugin = 'calibre.gui2.store.open_books_plugin:OpenBooksStore'
+    
+    drm_free_only = True
+    headquarters = 'US'
+
 class StoreOpenLibraryStore(StoreBase):
     name = 'Open Library'
     description = u'One web page for every book ever published. The goal is to be a true online library. Over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.'
@@ -1504,6 +1512,7 @@ plugins += [
     StoreManyBooksStore,
     StoreMobileReadStore,
     StoreNextoStore,
+    StoreOpenBooksStore,
     StoreOpenLibraryStore,
     StoreOReillyStore,
     StorePragmaticBookshelfStore,

src/calibre/devices/android/driver.py

@@ -45,8 +45,11 @@ class ANDROID(USBMS):
             0xfce : { 0xd12e : [0x0100]},
 
             # Google
-            0x18d1 : { 0x4e11 : [0x0100, 0x226, 0x227], 0x4e12: [0x0100, 0x226,
-                0x227], 0x4e21: [0x0100, 0x226, 0x227], 0xb058: [0x0222]},
+            0x18d1 : {
+                0x4e11 : [0x0100, 0x226, 0x227],
+                0x4e12: [0x0100, 0x226, 0x227],
+                0x4e21: [0x0100, 0x226, 0x227],
+                0xb058: [0x0222, 0x226, 0x227]},
 
             # Samsung
             0x04e8 : { 0x681d : [0x0222, 0x0223, 0x0224, 0x0400],
@@ -107,7 +110,7 @@ class ANDROID(USBMS):
     VENDOR_NAME      = ['HTC', 'MOTOROLA', 'GOOGLE_', 'ANDROID', 'ACER',
             'GT-I5700', 'SAMSUNG', 'DELL', 'LINUX', 'GOOGLE', 'ARCHOS',
             'TELECHIP', 'HUAWEI', 'T-MOBILE', 'SEMC', 'LGE', 'NVIDIA',
-            'GENERIC-', 'ZTE']
+            'GENERIC-', 'ZTE', 'MID']
     WINDOWS_MAIN_MEM = ['ANDROID_PHONE', 'A855', 'A853', 'INC.NEXUS_ONE',
             '__UMS_COMPOSITE', '_MB200', 'MASS_STORAGE', '_-_CARD', 'SGH-I897',
             'GT-I9000', 'FILE-STOR_GADGET', 'SGH-T959', 'SAMSUNG_ANDROID',
@@ -116,7 +119,7 @@ class ANDROID(USBMS):
             'IDEOS_TABLET', 'MYTOUCH_4G', 'UMS_COMPOSITE', 'SCH-I800_CARD',
             '7', 'A956', 'A955', 'A43', 'ANDROID_PLATFORM', 'TEGRA_2',
             'MB860', 'MULTI-CARD', 'MID7015A', 'INCREDIBLE', 'A7EB', 'STREAK',
-            'MB525']
+            'MB525', 'ANDROID2.3']
     WINDOWS_CARD_A_MEM = ['ANDROID_PHONE', 'GT-I9000_CARD', 'SGH-I897',
             'FILE-STOR_GADGET', 'SGH-T959', 'SAMSUNG_ANDROID', 'GT-P1000_CARD',
             'A70S', 'A101IT', '7', 'INCREDIBLE', 'A7EB', 'SGH-T849_CARD',

src/calibre/devices/apple/driver.py

@@ -1211,6 +1211,7 @@ class ITUNES(DriverBase):
         '''
         windows assumes pythoncom wrapper
         '''
+        if DEBUG:
             self.log.info(" ITUNES._add_library_book()")
         if isosx:
             added = self.iTunes.add(appscript.mactypes.File(file))
@@ -1335,6 +1336,7 @@ class ITUNES(DriverBase):
         assumes pythoncom wrapper for db_added
         as of iTunes 9.2, iBooks 1.1, can't set artwork for PDF files via automation
         '''
+        if DEBUG:
             self.log.info(" ITUNES._cover_to_thumb()")
 
         thumb = None
@@ -2489,6 +2491,7 @@ class ITUNES(DriverBase):
         '''
         Windows assumes pythoncom wrapper
         '''
+        if DEBUG:
             self.log.info(" ITUNES._remove_from_device()")
         if isosx:
             if DEBUG:
@@ -2616,6 +2619,7 @@ class ITUNES(DriverBase):
     def _update_epub_metadata(self, fpath, metadata):
         '''
         '''
+        if DEBUG:
             self.log.info(" ITUNES._update_epub_metadata()")
 
         # Fetch plugboard updates
@@ -2983,6 +2987,7 @@ class ITUNES(DriverBase):
                 self.log.info("        tags: %s %s" % (book.tags, ">>> %s" %
                                            newmi.tags if book.tags != newmi.tags else ''))
             else:
+                if DEBUG:
                     self.log("  matching plugboard not found")
 
         else:

src/calibre/ebooks/comic/input.py

@@ -351,7 +351,9 @@ class ComicInput(InputFormatPlugin):
         comics = []
         with CurrentDir(tdir):
             if not os.path.exists('comics.txt'):
-                raise ValueError('%s is not a valid comic collection'
+                raise ValueError((
+                    '%s is not a valid comic collection'
+                    ' no comics.txt was found in the file')
                         %stream.name)
             raw = open('comics.txt', 'rb').read()
             if raw.startswith(codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE):

src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py

@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ class CompositeProgressReporter(object):
                 (self.global_max - self.global_min)
         self.global_reporter(global_frac, msg)
 
+ARCHIVE_FMTS = ('zip', 'rar', 'oebzip')
+
 class Plumber(object):
     '''
     The `Plumber` manages the conversion pipeline. An UI should call the methods
@@ -594,7 +596,7 @@ OptionRecommendation(name='sr3_replace',
             raise ValueError('Input file must have an extension')
         input_fmt = input_fmt[1:].lower()
         self.archive_input_tdir = None
-        if input_fmt in ('zip', 'rar', 'oebzip'):
+        if input_fmt in ARCHIVE_FMTS:
             self.log('Processing archive...')
             tdir = PersistentTemporaryDirectory('_plumber_archive')
             self.input, input_fmt = self.unarchive(self.input, tdir)

src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py

@@ -248,10 +248,11 @@ def error_dialog(parent, title, msg, det_msg='', show=False,
         return d.exec_()
     return d
 
-def question_dialog(parent, title, msg, det_msg='', show_copy_button=False):
+def question_dialog(parent, title, msg, det_msg='', show_copy_button=False,
+        default_yes=True):
     from calibre.gui2.dialogs.message_box import MessageBox
     d = MessageBox(MessageBox.QUESTION, title, msg, det_msg, parent=parent,
-                    show_copy_button=show_copy_button)
+                    show_copy_button=show_copy_button, default_yes=default_yes)
     return d.exec_() == d.Accepted
 
 def info_dialog(parent, title, msg, det_msg='', show=False,

src/calibre/gui2/actions/choose_library.py

@@ -252,11 +252,12 @@ class ChooseLibraryAction(InterfaceAction):
 
     def delete_requested(self, name, location):
         loc = location.replace('/', os.sep)
-        if not question_dialog(self.gui, _('Are you sure?'), '<p>'+
+        if not question_dialog(self.gui, _('Are you sure?'),
+                _('<h1 style="color:red">WARNING</h1>')+
                 _('<b style="color: red">All files</b> (not just ebooks) '
                     'from <br><br><b>%s</b><br><br> will be '
                 '<b>permanently deleted</b>. Are you sure?') % loc,
-                show_copy_button=False):
+                show_copy_button=False, default_yes=False):
             return
         exists = self.gui.library_view.model().db.exists_at(loc)
         if exists:

src/calibre/gui2/convert/regex_builder.py

@@ -139,7 +139,12 @@ class RegexBuilder(QDialog, Ui_RegexBuilder):
         try:
             self.open_book(fpath)
         finally:
+            try:
                 os.remove(fpath)
+            except:
+                # Fails on windows if the input plugin for this format keeps the file open
+                # Happens for LIT files
+                pass
         return True
 
     def open_book(self, pathtoebook):
@@ -148,7 +153,8 @@ class RegexBuilder(QDialog, Ui_RegexBuilder):
         text = [u'']
         preprocessor = HTMLPreProcessor(None, False)
         for path in self.iterator.spine:
-            html = open(path, 'rb').read().decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+            with open(path, 'rb') as f:
+                html = f.read().decode('utf-8', 'replace')
             html = preprocessor(html, get_preprocess_html=True)
             text.append(html)
         self.preview.setPlainText('\n---\n'.join(text))

src/calibre/gui2/convert/single.py

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ import sys, cPickle, shutil, importlib
 from PyQt4.Qt import QString, SIGNAL, QAbstractListModel, Qt, QVariant, QFont
 
 from calibre.gui2 import ResizableDialog, NONE
-from calibre.ebooks.conversion.config import GuiRecommendations, save_specifics, \
-        load_specifics
+from calibre.ebooks.conversion.config import (GuiRecommendations, save_specifics,
+        load_specifics)
 from calibre.gui2.convert.single_ui import Ui_Dialog
 from calibre.gui2.convert.metadata import MetadataWidget
 from calibre.gui2.convert.look_and_feel import LookAndFeelWidget
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ from calibre.gui2.convert.toc import TOCWidget
 from calibre.gui2.convert.debug import DebugWidget
 
 
-from calibre.ebooks.conversion.plumber import Plumber, supported_input_formats
+from calibre.ebooks.conversion.plumber import (Plumber,
+        supported_input_formats, ARCHIVE_FMTS)
 from calibre.ebooks.conversion.config import delete_specifics
 from calibre.customize.ui import available_output_formats
 from calibre.customize.conversion import OptionRecommendation
@@ -158,7 +159,10 @@ class Config(ResizableDialog, Ui_Dialog):
         output_path = 'dummy.'+output_format
         log = Log()
         log.outputs = []
-        self.plumber = Plumber('dummy.'+input_format, output_path, log)
+        input_file = 'dummy.'+input_format
+        if input_format in ARCHIVE_FMTS:
+            input_file = 'dummy.html'
+        self.plumber = Plumber(input_file, output_path, log)
 
         def widget_factory(cls):
             return cls(self.stack, self.plumber.get_option_by_name,

src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/choose_library.ui

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
    <item row="4" column="0" colspan="4">
     <widget class="QRadioButton" name="existing_library">
      <property name="text">
-      <string>Use &amp;existing library at the new location</string>
+      <string>Use the previously &amp;existing library at the new location</string>
      </property>
      <property name="checked">
       <bool>true</bool>

src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/message_box.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class MessageBox(QDialog, Ui_Dialog): # {{{
                  det_msg='',
                  q_icon=None,
                  show_copy_button=True,
-                 parent=None):
+                 parent=None, default_yes=True):
         QDialog.__init__(self, parent)
         if q_icon is None:
             icon = {
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ class MessageBox(QDialog, Ui_Dialog): # {{{
         self.is_question = type_ == self.QUESTION
         if self.is_question:
             self.bb.setStandardButtons(self.bb.Yes|self.bb.No)
-            self.bb.button(self.bb.Yes).setDefault(True)
+            self.bb.button(self.bb.Yes if default_yes else self.bb.No
+                    ).setDefault(True)
+            self.default_yes = default_yes
         else:
             self.bb.button(self.bb.Ok).setDefault(True)
 
@@ -101,7 +103,8 @@ class MessageBox(QDialog, Ui_Dialog): # {{{
         ret = QDialog.showEvent(self, ev)
         if self.is_question:
             try:
-                self.bb.button(self.bb.Yes).setFocus(Qt.OtherFocusReason)
+                self.bb.button(self.bb.Yes if self.default_yes else self.bb.No
+                        ).setFocus(Qt.OtherFocusReason)
             except:
                 pass# Buttons were changed
         else:

src/calibre/gui2/metadata/basic_widgets.py

@@ -173,9 +173,20 @@ class TitleSortEdit(TitleEdit):
 
     def auto_generate(self, *args):
         self.current_val = title_sort(self.title_edit.current_val)
+
+    def break_cycles(self):
+        try:
             self.title_edit.textChanged.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.textChanged.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.autogen_button.clicked.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
 
 # }}}
 
@@ -280,7 +291,10 @@ class AuthorsEdit(MultiCompleteComboBox):
 
     def break_cycles(self):
         self.db = self.dialog = None
+        try:
             self.manage_authors_signal.triggered.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
 
 class AuthorSortEdit(EnLineEdit):
 
@@ -387,11 +401,26 @@ class AuthorSortEdit(EnLineEdit):
 
     def break_cycles(self):
         self.db = None
+        try:
             self.authors_edit.editTextChanged.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.textChanged.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.autogen_button.clicked.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.copy_a_to_as_action.triggered.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.copy_as_to_a_action.triggered.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
         self.authors_edit = None
 
 # }}}
@@ -519,9 +548,18 @@ class SeriesIndexEdit(QDoubleSpinBox):
                 traceback.print_exc()
 
     def break_cycles(self):
+        try:
             self.series_edit.currentIndexChanged.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.series_edit.editTextChanged.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
+        try:
             self.series_edit.lineEdit().editingFinished.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
         self.db = self.series_edit = self.dialog = None
 
 # }}}
@@ -898,7 +936,10 @@ class Cover(ImageView): # {{{
         return True
 
     def break_cycles(self):
+        try:
             self.cover_changed.disconnect()
+        except:
+            pass
         self.dialog = self._cdata = self.current_val = self.original_val = None
 
 # }}}

src/calibre/gui2/store/config/chooser/models.py

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class Matches(QAbstractItemModel):
                 return QVariant('<p>%s</p>' % result.description)
             elif col == 2:
                 if result.drm_free_only:
-                    return QVariant('<p>' + _('This store only distributes ebooks with DRM.') + '</p>')
+                    return QVariant('<p>' + _('This store only distributes ebooks without DRM.') + '</p>')
                 else:
                     return QVariant('<p>' + _('This store distributes ebooks with DRM. It may have some titles without DRM, but you will need to check on a per title basis.') + '</p>')
             elif col == 3:

src/calibre/gui2/store/declined.txt

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 This is a list of stores that objected, declined
 or asked not to be included in the store integration.
 
-* Borders (http://www.borders.com/)
-* Indigo (http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/)
+* Borders (http://www.borders.com/).
+* Indigo (http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/).
 * Libraria Rizzoli (http://libreriarizzoli.corriere.it/).
-  No reply with two attempts over 2 weeks
-* WH Smith (http://www.whsmith.co.uk/)
-  Refused to permit signing up for the affiliate program

src/calibre/gui2/store/open_books_plugin.py

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import, print_function)
+
+__license__ = 'GPL 3'
+__copyright__ = '2011, John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+
+import urllib
+from contextlib import closing
+
+from lxml import html
+
+from PyQt4.Qt import QUrl
+
+from calibre import browser, url_slash_cleaner
+from calibre.gui2 import open_url
+from calibre.gui2.store import StorePlugin
+from calibre.gui2.store.basic_config import BasicStoreConfig
+from calibre.gui2.store.search_result import SearchResult
+from calibre.gui2.store.web_store_dialog import WebStoreDialog
+
+class OpenBooksStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
+
+    def open(self, parent=None, detail_item=None, external=False):
+        url = 'http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/'
+
+        if external or self.config.get('open_external', False):
+            open_url(QUrl(url_slash_cleaner(detail_item if detail_item else url)))
+        else:
+            d = WebStoreDialog(self.gui, self.url, parent, detail_item)
+            d.setWindowTitle(self.name)
+            d.set_tags(self.config.get('tags', ''))
+            d.exec_()
+
+    def search(self, query, max_results=10, timeout=60):
+        url = 'http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/search/?q=' + urllib.quote_plus(query)
+
+        br = browser()
+
+        counter = max_results
+        with closing(br.open(url, timeout=timeout)) as f:
+            doc = html.fromstring(f.read())
+            for data in doc.xpath('//ul[@id="object_list"]//li'):
+                if counter <= 0:
+                    break
+    
+                id = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="links"]/a[1]/@href'))
+                id = id.strip()
+                if not id:
+                    continue
+
+                cover_url = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="cover"]/img/@src'))
+
+                price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="price"]/text()'))
+                a, b, price = price.partition('Price:')
+                price = price.strip()
+                if not price:
+                    continue
+
+                title = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div/strong/text()'))
+                author = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="author"]//text()'))
+                author = author.partition('by')[-1]
+
+                counter -= 1
+
+                s = SearchResult()
+                s.cover_url = cover_url
+                s.title = title.strip()
+                s.author = author.strip()
+                s.price = price.strip()
+                s.detail_item = id.strip()
+                s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNLOCKED
+
+                yield s

src/calibre/gui2/tag_view.py

@@ -1493,7 +1493,6 @@ class TagsModel(QAbstractItemModel): # {{{
             self.tags_view.tag_item_renamed.emit()
             item.tag.name = val
             self.rename_item_in_all_user_categories(name, key, val)
-            self.refresh_required.emit()
         self.show_item_at_path(path)
         return True
 

src/calibre/gui2/update.py

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class UpdateNotification(QDialog):
             'See the <a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new'
             '">new features</a>.') + '<p>'+_('Update <b>only</b> if one of the '
             'new features or bug fixes is important to you. '
-            'If the current version works well for you, do not update.'))%(
+            'If the current version works well for you, there is no need to update.'))%(
                 __appname__, calibre_version))
         self.label.setOpenExternalLinks(True)
         self.label.setWordWrap(True)

src/calibre/utils/ipc/proxy.py

@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim:fileencoding=UTF-8:ts=4:sw=4:sta:et:sts=4:ai
+from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import,
+                        print_function)
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2011, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+
+import os, cPickle, struct
+from threading import Thread
+from Queue import Queue, Empty
+from multiprocessing.connection import arbitrary_address, Listener
+from functools import partial
+
+from calibre import as_unicode, prints
+from calibre.constants import iswindows, DEBUG
+
+def _encode(msg):
+    raw = cPickle.dumps(msg, -1)
+    size = len(raw)
+    header = struct.pack('!Q', size)
+    return header + raw
+
+def _decode(raw):
+    sz = struct.calcsize('!Q')
+    if len(raw) < sz:
+        return 'invalid', None
+    header, = struct.unpack('!Q', raw[:sz])
+    if len(raw) != sz + header or header == 0:
+        return 'invalid', None
+    return cPickle.loads(raw[sz:])
+
+
+class Writer(Thread):
+
+    TIMEOUT = 60 #seconds
+
+    def __init__(self, conn):
+        Thread.__init__(self)
+        self.daemon = True
+        self.dataq, self.resultq = Queue(), Queue()
+        self.conn = conn
+        self.start()
+        self.data_written = False
+
+    def close(self):
+        self.dataq.put(None)
+
+    def flush(self):
+        pass
+
+    def write(self, raw_data):
+        self.dataq.put(raw_data)
+
+        try:
+            ex = self.resultq.get(True, self.TIMEOUT)
+        except Empty:
+            raise IOError('Writing to socket timed out')
+        else:
+            if ex is not None:
+                raise IOError('Writing to socket failed with error: %s' % ex)
+
+    def run(self):
+        while True:
+            x = self.dataq.get()
+            if x is None:
+                break
+            try:
+                self.data_written = True
+                self.conn.send_bytes(x)
+            except Exception as e:
+                self.resultq.put(as_unicode(e))
+            else:
+                self.resultq.put(None)
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
+        self.close()
+
+class Server(Thread):
+
+    def __init__(self, dispatcher):
+        Thread.__init__(self)
+        self.daemon = True
+
+        self.auth_key = os.urandom(32)
+        self.address = arbitrary_address('AF_PIPE' if iswindows else 'AF_UNIX')
+        if iswindows and self.address[1] == ':':
+            self.address = self.address[2:]
+        self.listener = Listener(address=self.address,
+                authkey=self.auth_key, backlog=4)
+
+        self.keep_going = True
+        self.dispatcher = dispatcher
+
+    @property
+    def connection_information(self):
+        if not self.is_alive():
+            self.start()
+        return (self.address, self.auth_key)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self.keep_going = False
+        try:
+            self.listener.close()
+        except:
+            pass
+
+    def run(self):
+        while self.keep_going:
+            try:
+                conn = self.listener.accept()
+                self.handle_client(conn)
+            except:
+                pass
+
+    def handle_client(self, conn):
+        t = Thread(target=partial(self._handle_client, conn))
+        t.daemon = True
+        t.start()
+
+    def _handle_client(self, conn):
+        while True:
+            try:
+                func_name, args, kwargs = conn.recv()
+            except EOFError:
+                try:
+                    conn.close()
+                except:
+                    pass
+                return
+            else:
+                try:
+                    self.call_func(func_name, args, kwargs, conn)
+                except:
+                    try:
+                        conn.close()
+                    except:
+                        pass
+                    prints('Proxy function: %s with args: %r and'
+                            ' kwargs: %r failed')
+                    if DEBUG:
+                        import traceback
+                        traceback.print_exc()
+                    break
+
+    def call_func(self, func_name, args, kwargs, conn):
+        with Writer(conn) as f:
+            try:
+                self.dispatcher(f, func_name, args, kwargs)
+            except Exception as e:
+                if not f.data_written:
+                    import traceback
+                    # Try to tell the client process what error happened
+                    try:
+                        conn.send_bytes(_encode(('failed', (unicode(e),
+                            as_unicode(traceback.format_exc())))))
+                    except:
+                        pass
+                raise
+
+

src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/collection.py

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def serialize_builtin_recipes():
     return serialize_collection(recipe_mapping)
 
 def get_builtin_recipe_collection():
-    return etree.parse(P('builtin_recipes.xml')).getroot()
+    return etree.parse(P('builtin_recipes.xml', allow_user_override=False)).getroot()
 
 def get_custom_recipe_collection(*args):
     from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import compile_recipe, \
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def download_builtin_recipe(urn):
     return br.open_novisit('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/recipe/'+urn).read()
 
 def get_builtin_recipe(urn):
-    with zipfile.ZipFile(P('builtin_recipes.zip'), 'r') as zf:
+    with zipfile.ZipFile(P('builtin_recipes.zip', allow_user_override=False), 'r') as zf:
         return zf.read(urn+'.recipe')
 
 def get_builtin_recipe_by_title(title, log=None, download_recipe=False):

src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/model.py

@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ class RecipeModel(QAbstractItemModel, SearchQueryParser):
         self.builtin_recipe_collection = get_builtin_recipe_collection()
         self.scheduler_config = SchedulerConfig()
         try:
-            with zipfile.ZipFile(P('builtin_recipes.zip'), 'r') as zf:
+            with zipfile.ZipFile(P('builtin_recipes.zip',
+                    allow_user_override=False), 'r') as zf:
                 self.favicons = dict([(x.filename, x) for x in zf.infolist() if
                     x.filename.endswith('.png')])
         except:
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ class RecipeModel(QAbstractItemModel, SearchQueryParser):
 
     def do_refresh(self, restrict_to_urns=set([])):
         self.custom_recipe_collection = get_custom_recipe_collection()
-        zf = P('builtin_recipes.zip')
+        zf = P('builtin_recipes.zip', allow_user_override=False)
 
         def factory(cls, parent, *args):
             args = list(args)