[Kavita] Configurable Collapse of Series UI Metadata Elements

[Citizen7]

Idea Description

Current Situation

In the current UI, when opening a series, the Genre, Collections, Reading Lists, Writers, Cover Artists, Characters, Colorists, Editors, Inkers, Letterers, Pencillers, and Publisher metadata tag fields are all displayed by default before the actual issues/volumes section. Although each section displays only 30 tags before showing an [and X more] tag, these sections can easily grow to extremely large size, particularly when viewing long-running series.

While there is a toggle at the bottom allowing the user to "See Less", this toggle does not persist when reloading the series, nor can it be set in the UI as the default.

Proposed Solution

• Each section can be individually collapsed
• The default state (open, collapsed) can be set in the UI Customization screen

Potential Additional Features

• Default state could be overwritten with per series settings
• Current state remembered per series, instead of resetting to default on every load
• Customize how many tags appear before [and X more]
• The ability to re-order the metadata sections.

Why This Is Important

Different users view metadata with different priorities. Some feel that it is of highest importance, while others find it significantly less helpful when it physically imposes itself between the reader and the material to be read. Being able to customize how much metadata is shown by default would allow users to prioritize for themselves to get the best reading experience.

Duration of Using Kavita

6 months

Idea Category

Feature Enhancement

Agreement

• I agree that this is solely for submitting ideas, and I will search for existing ideas before posting.

[majora2007]

Actually, this type of expand by default feature just shipped and on the changelog I asked for feedback. When originally implementing, users wanted more tags expanded.

I'm not sure about building that level of customization for this (let's see community engagement), but what about adjusting the tag amount before automatically expanding the section?

[majora2007]

Changed: On Desktop, by default all series metadata will show (for series metadata). I'm looking for feedback from users.
from https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/releases/tag/v0.7.11

[Citizen7]

Thank you. If there is a particular place you would like feedback to be collected for that (I didn't see one linked), I will put my opinion there. Otherwise, my feedback is that I would prefer them to be collapsed by default instead of shown, but I can see why other users would prefer the opposite, so I still think the ability to specify that per system (if not per user, or even per series) would be a nice feature.

[majora2007]

Here is completely fine. Thanks for sharing your feedback. I hope more people comment so we can find a good out of the box experience for everyone.

[lyingloverr]

I would prefer them to be collapsed by default as well.

[majora2007]

For future people, please upvote lyingloverr's preference if you're in agreement.