Use GUI name when show connected device in GUI (I'm fed up with all the posts about calibre detecting x SONY reader as y SONY reader)

src/calibre/devices/interface.py

@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@ class DevicePlugin(Plugin):
     #: Icon for this device
     icon = I('reader.svg')
 
+    @classmethod
+    def get_gui_name(cls):
+        if hasattr(cls, 'gui_name'):
+            return cls.gui_name
+        if hasattr(cls, '__name__'):
+            return cls.__name__
+        return cls.name
+
+
     def test_bcd_windows(self, device_id, bcd):
         if bcd is None or len(bcd) == 0:
             return True

src/calibre/devices/prs500/driver.py

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ class PRS500(DeviceConfig, DevicePlugin):
     PRODUCT_ID   = 0x029b #: Product Id for the PRS-500
     BCD          = [0x100]
     PRODUCT_NAME = 'PRS-500'
+    gui_name     = PRODUCT_NAME
     VENDOR_NAME  = 'SONY'
     INTERFACE_ID = 0      #: The interface we use to talk to the device
     BULK_IN_EP   = 0x81   #: Endpoint for Bulk reads
@@ -114,10 +115,6 @@ class PRS500(DeviceConfig, DevicePlugin):
     SUPPORTS_SUB_DIRS = False
     MUST_READ_METADATA = True
 
-    @classmethod
-    def get_gui_name(cls):
-        return 'PRS-500'
-
     def log_packet(self, packet, header, stream=sys.stderr):
         """
         Log C{packet} to stream C{stream}.

src/calibre/devices/prs505/driver.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from calibre import __appname__
 class PRS505(CLI, Device):
 
     name           = 'PRS-300/505 Device Interface'
-    gui_name       = 'SONY Pocket Edition'
+    gui_name       = 'SONY Reader'
     description    = _('Communicate with the Sony PRS-300/505/500 eBook reader.')
     author         = 'Kovid Goyal and John Schember'
     supported_platforms = ['windows', 'osx', 'linux']
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class PRS505(CLI, Device):
                 self._card_b_prefix = None
 
     def get_device_information(self, end_session=True):
-        return (self.__class__.__name__, '', '', '')
+        return (self.gui_name, '', '', '')
 
     def books(self, oncard=None, end_session=True):
         if oncard == 'carda' and not self._card_a_prefix:
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class PRS700(PRS505):
     name           = 'PRS-600/700/900 Device Interface'
     description    = _('Communicate with the Sony PRS-600/700/900 eBook reader.')
     author         = 'Kovid Goyal and John Schember'
-    gui_name       = 'SONY Touch/Daily edition'
+    gui_name       = 'SONY Reader'
     supported_platforms = ['windows', 'osx', 'linux']
 
     BCD          = [0x31a]

src/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py

@@ -98,13 +98,6 @@ class Device(DeviceConfig, DevicePlugin):
             self.detected_device = None
         self.set_progress_reporter(report_progress)
 
-    @classmethod
-    def get_gui_name(cls):
-        x = getattr(cls, 'gui_name', None)
-        if x is None:
-            x = cls.__name__
-        return x
-
     def set_progress_reporter(self, report_progress):
         self.report_progress = report_progress
         self.report_progress = report_progress

src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class USBMS(CLI, Device):
 
     def get_device_information(self, end_session=True):
         self.report_progress(1.0, _('Get device information...'))
-        return (self.__class__.__name__, '', '', '')
+        return (self.get_gui_name(), '', '', '')
 
     def books(self, oncard=None, end_session=True):
         from calibre.ebooks.metadata.meta import path_to_ext