Some new tools

[ZackMuc]

Originally Posted by GreyFox

Awesome, thanks so much. Someone else made some color icons too and now with yours everything has a nice splash of color.

Where are they to find?

[neil_swann80]

Here's SOME

Save the icons to:
/mnt/ext1/applications/icons

Then save the view.json file to:
mnt/ext1/system/config/desktop

[totasenior]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Here's SOME

I copied the icons you provided into the system/resources/Line folder. I restarted the device (PB Verse Pro Color).
However, only the icons on the main screen have changed colour.
What am I doing wrong?
What is the solution to make the icons of the applications colored?

[neil_swann80]

Have you edited:
mnt/ext1/system/config/desktop/view.json

You'll need to add all the apps you want to change the icons for to the json file.

You need to be careful with the formatting, otherwise the menu will not show at all. if you do mess it up, just delete the json file and reboot and the default one will be generated anew.

There's an example view.json file for my device within the zip file in this POST

[totasenior]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Have you edited:
mnt/ext1/system/config/desktop/view.json

You'll need to add all the apps you want to change the icons for to the json file.

You need to be careful with the formatting, otherwise the menu will not show at all. if you do mess it up, just delete the json file and reboot and the default one will be generated anew.

There's an example view.json file for my device within the zip file in this POST

Well, I can't do that.
Unfortunately I'm not good at this level (editing).

[neil_swann80]

Originally Posted by totasenior

Well, I can't do that.
Unfortunately I'm not good at this level (editing).

It's not difficult really. You can edit a json file with a simple text editor like notepad.

[ZackMuc]

I renamed the pics like here: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Poc...e_Theme_Images

[neil_swann80]

It's even easier than renaming, as I've just noticed that the color icons zip file already has the modified view.json within it.

So just save the icons to:
/mnt/ext1/applications/icons

Then save the view.json file to:
mnt/ext1/system/config/desktop

[ZackMuc]

Can the Book Setting Icon or the Rotate Icon also be changed. Where to find the original Icons. Is the source code for the Color 3 available?

[chrisridd]

Originally Posted by ZackMuc

Can the Book Setting Icon or the Rotate Icon also be changed. Where to find the original Icons. Is the source code for the Color 3 available?

Yes, it looks like these are all present in the Line.pbt that PocketBook ships.

I would suggest:

1. listing the resources in Line.pbt (use rpbres or similar)
2. looking for interesting resource names (use grep?)
3. extract those resources (use rpbres)
4. convert the resources into images (use res2image)
5. edit the images to your taste
6. convert them back to the right kind of Windows BMP files
7. copy them into the correct location on your PocketBook.

PocketBook software is not open source, so there's no source code available. I don't think you need it for your task.

rpbres and res2image are both from my GitHub repo. There's a note in this thread on how to create the right kind of Windows BMP file too.

[ZackMuc]

I do not find a Line.pbt on my Color 3

[chrisridd]

Originally Posted by ZackMuc

I do not find a Line.pbt on my Color 3

Ah, it is in /ebrmain/themes/Line.pbt however when you connect the PocketBook to your computer all you can see is /mnt/ext1.

What I have done is to create an executable "app" in /mnt/ext1/application/test.app which is just a simple Linux shell script. In that script I can do whatever I want, such as running `ls -lR / > /mnt/ext1/slash.txt`, or `cp /ebrmain/themes/Line.pbt /mnt/ext1/Line.pbt` etc etc.

Then I tap the app icon, and when I reconnect it to my Mac later I can copy off the new files.

That's worth writing up somewhere on the wiki.

[ZackMuc]

id did the scripts but nothing happens

test.app:

#!/bin/sh
ls -lR / > /mnt/ext1/slash.txt

[chrisridd]

Originally Posted by ZackMuc

id did the scripts but nothing happens

test.app:

#!/bin/sh
ls -lR / > /mnt/ext1/slash.txt

That ought to work. Make sure the file has the execute bits set.

[ZackMuc]

How can i do, my pocketbook is not jailbraked