Thread: Firmware 3.18.0 discussion
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Old 09-29-2015, 09:03 PM   #133
davidfor
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Originally Posted by volpo View Post
I see it as:
Last line of text
space
space
page xx of xx

Wasted space that 3 lines of text could occupy.

Really though a minor quibble. Not like refresh every page, that flash would really get on my nerves after a while.
Ok, so the issue is with the way that Kobo have designed the reader application to display the footer. And that's something hasn't changed for very long time. The way you described it, I thought you were seeing something different to the previous firmware. And nothing in what you said suggested it was in the footer.

As to the spacing, at least some of that is the design of the book and the font you are using. jackiew showed screenshots of what she has. I get very similar results without any patches. If you tap the screen to bring up the menu, there is a line drawn across the bottom of the screen. That is the limit for any text. Whenever I see what seems to be to much space and bring up the menu, there is rarely enough space for a fill line. And any time there is, it means I hadn't edit the book and set the widows and orphans in the CSS to 1.

Now I'm not arguing that the footer size couldn't be reduced. I think that it could be reduced by about a third without changing the current aesthetics and usability. Anything smaller would need a rethink on the bottom menu bar when it was displayed.
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