From 55e070682c62a7d79c37b2e856bdd068fd44ed19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 05:28:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix duplicate column names in Show Column and Sort By menus

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/sessions/bdadbc3e-805b-48aa-9232-a4c7df75d643

Co-authored-by: kovidgoyal <1308621+kovidgoyal@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/calibre/gui2/actions/sort.py  | 3 +++
 src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/actions/sort.py b/src/calibre/gui2/actions/sort.py
index 56bff7cea1..b80d21ed1d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/actions/sort.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/actions/sort.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ __license__ = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2013, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 
 from contextlib import suppress
+from collections import Counter
 from functools import partial
 
 from qt.core import (
@@ -37,6 +38,8 @@ def hidden_fields(db):
 def get_sorted_fields(db):
     fm = db.field_metadata
     name_map = [(v,k) for k, v in fm.ui_sortable_field_keys().items()]
+    counts = Counter(name for name, _ in name_map)
+    name_map = [(f'{name} [{key}]' if counts[name] > 1 else name, key) for name, key in name_map]
     return sorted(name_map, key=lambda x: primary_sort_key(x[0]))
 
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py b/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py
index cf83ccc1e4..f82fc430ae 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 import itertools
 import operator
-from collections import OrderedDict
+from collections import Counter, OrderedDict
 from functools import partial
 
 from qt.core import (
@@ -661,9 +661,11 @@ class BooksView(TableView):  # {{{
             m.setIcon(QIcon.ic('plus.png'))
             hcols = [(hcol, str(self.model().headerData(hidx, Qt.Orientation.Horizontal, Qt.ItemDataRole.DisplayRole) or ''))
                      for hcol, hidx in hidden_cols.items()]
+            name_counts = Counter(hname for _, hname in hcols)
             hcols.sort(key=lambda x: primary_sort_key(x[1]))
             for hcol, hname in hcols:
-                m.addAction(hname.replace('&', '&&'), partial(handler, action='show', column=hcol))
+                display = f'{hname} [{hcol}]' if name_counts[hname] > 1 else hname
+                m.addAction(display.replace('&', '&&'), partial(handler, action='show', column=hcol))
         ans.addSeparator()
         if col == 'ondevice':
             ans.addAction(_('Remember On Device column width'),