[ShellShock]

I have just applied the full-screen firmware change to both my Glo and Aura, and they are so much better for it.

I used firmware 2.5.1 as my starting point, because this does not have the bigger top margin of later firmwares. 2.5.2 was nerfed with a permanent title bar, even in epubs! Then that was fixed, but the top margin was bigger than it used to be. In 2.8.1 the top margin shrank right down again, but the css for setting the bottom bar no longer seems to be accessible (no longer in libnickel.so.1.0.0).

My Aura was on 2.8.1 and I tried to apply the modified 2.5.1 to it without first doing a factory reset, which bricked the reader. So I did a hardware factory reset and then the modified 2.5.1 installed no problems.

This is the best fix by far for the Kobos. I'm not going to miss all the changes Kobo put into the later firmwares--I can't think of anything I will miss, makes me think Kobo devs are wasting their time when they could be doing simple changes like making the bottom bar smaller, already. Jeez!

These are the settings I have used in libnickel.so.1.0.0. I have used the same settings for the Glo (kraken) and Aura (dragon), and looks good to me. The page numbers on the Aura are now very close to the bottom bevel (may be too close, need to try it out for a bit), and they only take up one line of text.

ReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="kraken"], 
ReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="phoenix"] {
min-height: 30px;
max-height: 30px;
qproperty-footerMargin:  10;
}

ReadingFooter[deviceCodeName="dragon"] {
min-height:  30px;
max-height:  30px;
qproperty-footerMargin: 10;
}

Thanks for everyone who pioneered this fix.