How to edit the CSS of libnickel.so.1.0.0?

[ItalianUruguayan]

I want to modify the appearance of the nickel web browser, and in order to do that I have extracted the CSS of the libnickel.so.1.0.0 file with pipcat's extract-css-libs tool.

After doing that, I have found the relevant bits of code I need to modify:

/* found: 129 pos: bd0990 */
#urlBar {
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

#urlBar[browserStyle="simple"] {
qproperty-visible: false;
}

/* found: 410 pos: c37a58 */
#browserContainer[qApp_deviceIsTrilogy="true"] {
qproperty-bottomMargin: 10;
}

These are found on a file called libnickel.so.1.0.0-all.css that was extracted by this tool.

After editing this file, how would one apply the desired modifications to the original file? Pipcat mentions doing it via a Metazoa patch. Could anyone explain to me how that would be done?

[ItalianUruguayan]

Okay, nevermind. After some hours of reading I have found it myself. In order to modify the file you need to open it with an hex editor and you will find the relevant CSS code buried behind a lot of weird characters.

[davidfor]

You might want to look at the patching threads. That is one of the things that is being changed.

[oren64]

Originally Posted by ItalianUruguayan

After doing that, I have found the relevant bits of code I need to modify:

/* found: 129 pos: bd0990 */
#urlBar {
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

#urlBar[browserStyle="simple"] {
qproperty-visible: false;
}

The code you post is from the file libnickel.so.1.0.0 and it's not compressed.
There no compressed css strings in the file libnickel.so.1.0.0.

/* found: 410 pos: c37a58 */
#browserContainer[qApp_deviceIsTrilogy="true"] {
qproperty-bottomMargin: 10;}

This code is compressed css from the file nickel.
See this guide Patching compressed CSS strings.