[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

I think the solution for the KePub footer might involve reducing the height of the bottom menus, in a similar way to jackie_w's patch for the KePub header reduces the top menus.

I haven't time to experiment with it at the moment, but this compressed CSS in nickel might be what needs changing:

QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsTrilogy="true"] {
  min-height: 70px;
  max-height: 70px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsPhoenix="true"] {
  min-height: 82px;
  max-height: 82px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsDragon="true"] {
  min-height: 120px;
  max-height: 120px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsDaylight="true"] {
  min-height: 156px;
  max-height: 156px;
}

Re: the Custom Footer patch. I have fw 4.2.8110 loaded on 3 different devices, H2O, GloHD and KA1. It's working as well as it always has done for me in both epub and kepub.

Re: the 'footerFixedHeight' code above. I thought I'd tried just about every likely contender I could find in nickel CSS streams, but no joy. Still, if you find time, a second opinion is always worthwhile I did think I was going in circles by the time I finished looking!

The only useful success I had with any kind of reduced footer in nickel - apart from your long-standing 'ReadingFooter' widget patch - was with the footer you get when you do a 'search in book'. This one works pretty much like the 'reduce kepub header' and can be found in the compressed stream containing the widget #SearchMenuView.

ETA: I'm not sure why it would make a difference to the results but perhaps I should also have mentioned this. Because I have rather a lot of nickel patches, many of which are to compressed CSS streams, I use the pipcat-method to apply all nickel patches, rather than doing some through the pipcat-method and some through the main Patcher.