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Anak · 05-14-2013, 05:23 AM

I've made my motivated opinions in previous messages in this post but all will add some additional thoughts in this post.

There are actually two top and bottom bars

settings menu. To change font settings, access TOC (bottom bar), or general device settings (top bar) etc.
reading mode. Showing booktitle, pagenumbers etc.

This is not new as the discussion in this thead is mainly about what I describe here as "reading mode". But I'll think it is useful to make an explicit distinction between the two.

settings menu. No changes have to be made to the settings menu. Ofcourse Kobo could apply any changes to it if they'll think it will improve navigation or general usability of the device. The relative wide margins can be left unaltered.
reading mode. The bars only show information that requires no user input. Meaning, the relative wide margins can be reduced to a more moderate size. The information presented in these bars could be placed closer to the edge of the screen. Use the same font size for the top and bottom bar (to me the font size used in the bottom bar seems a little bigger than the top bar, but may actually be the same size) or a slightly smaller font size that frees up a little more space for actual reading purposes. But the best thing Kobo could to make the bars fully optional in reading mode.

In my opinion there shoud be a

full screen mode (book information bars are optional)
no hard page margins. The Kobo user agent uses hard left and right margins in kepub (about 10px or so) that can not be made smaller. These margins come on top of the margins that are already set in the epub itself. Minimum margins of the user agent should be zero. Ofcourse Kobo could set the default of initial margins setting to its current settings.
My stand is that the viewport of the device should be equal to the maximum resolution of the device itself. And not cropped by 10px on the left and right. This may seem small but but cropping the screen output (only for left and right margins) itself is unnecessery.

In reading mode this means that the actual viewport for reading purposes should be

in full screen mode: identical to the maximum screen resolution of the device (Touch 800×600;AuraHD 1440×1080).
show book information while reading: identical to the maximum screen resolution of the device decreased with the sizes of the top and bottom bars. This is can be with small margins or relative wide margins (current situation)

05-14-2013, 05:23 AM	#336
Anak Guru Posts: 600 Karma: 641742 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: DE Device: Kobo Glo	I've made my motivated opinions in previous messages in this post but all will add some additional thoughts in this post. There are actually two top and bottom bars settings menu. To change font settings, access TOC (bottom bar), or general device settings (top bar) etc. reading mode. Showing booktitle, pagenumbers etc. This is not new as the discussion in this thead is mainly about what I describe here as "reading mode". But I'll think it is useful to make an explicit distinction between the two. settings menu. No changes have to be made to the settings menu. Ofcourse Kobo could apply any changes to it if they'll think it will improve navigation or general usability of the device. The relative wide margins can be left unaltered. reading mode. The bars only show information that requires no user input. Meaning, the relative wide margins can be reduced to a more moderate size. The information presented in these bars could be placed closer to the edge of the screen. Use the same font size for the top and bottom bar (to me the font size used in the bottom bar seems a little bigger than the top bar, but may actually be the same size) or a slightly smaller font size that frees up a little more space for actual reading purposes. But the best thing Kobo could to make the bars fully optional in reading mode. In my opinion there shoud be a full screen mode (book information bars are optional) no hard page margins. The Kobo user agent uses hard left and right margins in kepub (about 10px or so) that can not be made smaller. These margins come on top of the margins that are already set in the epub itself. Minimum margins of the user agent should be zero. Ofcourse Kobo could set the default of initial margins setting to its current settings. My stand is that the viewport of the device should be equal to the maximum resolution of the device itself. And not cropped by 10px on the left and right. This may seem small but but cropping the screen output (only for left and right margins) itself is unnecessery. In reading mode this means that the actual viewport for reading purposes should be in full screen mode: identical to the maximum screen resolution of the device (Touch 800×600;AuraHD 1440×1080). show book information while reading: identical to the maximum screen resolution of the device decreased with the sizes of the top and bottom bars. This is can be with small margins or relative wide margins (current situation)