kobopatch request thread

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Thank you. Once Geek1011 rewrites the shutdown time patch, I'll give yours as go. But for now, I'll copy your patch and place it in the yaml file for use when it's time.

In case you didn't notice it, I added some important ETA info to my previous post.

[LucyOne]

I don't know if anybody mentioned it in the patching thread for the newest firmware, but there is a problem with the screen rotation menu on the Clara HD. The words "Portrait" and "Landscape" are cut off, you can just see the half of the second letters.
Also, the icon was removed from the reading menu. Is there any way to get it back? It's kind of counter-intuitive that you have to go to the main menu to change the screen rotation. If it's not possible to change this by patch, I hope Kobo will change it back again.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

In case you didn't notice it, I added some important ETA info to my previous post.

Thanks. I'll see how I get on and report back.

[Vetchy]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

This leads me to ask whether you have any other font hacks installed? I have a vague memory that a long time ago some Cyrillic users had a hack to physically remove these problematic built-in fallback font(s) so that Georgia would be used instead.

Yes, I'm using path that removed all fonts exclude Georgia.

Can I apply your patch with custom fonts which uploaded to book in FONTS folder? Or it applied only for pre-install fonts?

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Vetchy

Can I apply your patch with custom fonts which uploaded to book in FONTS folder?

Sort answer - yes.

Longer answer - re-read carefully JSWolf's query in post #328 and my detailed response in post #329, especially the ETA in the second half.

The only other info you might need for a sideloaded font is if your new font-family name contains spaces, in which case you would need to wrap the new name in single-quotes, something like:

- {Find: "font-family: Avenir;", Replace: "font-family:'My Custom Fontname';"}

The longer the new name is, the more likely running kobopatch will throw a 'too long' error. So, you might need to use the trick, documented in post #329, to free some space by removing some of the Japanese (and/or Chinese) specific CSS not required on your own Kobo.

The patch I posted was only meant to be quick-and-dirty to let you use Georgia instead of Avenir. If/when I complete the official version it will have more help comments in the patch code.

[JSWolf]

@jackie_w I've applied your patch to change the header/footer font and It's working well with Chareink. I didn't need to us the other one to free up space in the CSS.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

@jackie_w I've applied your patch to change the header/footer font and It's working well with Chareink. I didn't need to us the other one to free up space in the CSS.

Excellent. Thanks for testing

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Excellent. Thanks for testing

Your welcome. Thank you for the patch. I didn't know I wanted it until I tried it. My Chareink with added weight is perfect for the header/footer.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

I don't know if anybody mentioned it in the patching thread for the newest firmware, but there is a problem with the screen rotation menu on the Clara HD. The words "Portrait" and "Landscape" are cut off, you can just see the half of the second letters.
Also, the icon was removed from the reading menu. Is there any way to get it back? It's kind of counter-intuitive that you have to go to the main menu to change the screen rotation. If it's not possible to change this by patch, I hope Kobo will change it back again.

I've fixed both issues (but now there's a side effect of the Automatic option showing, but not doing anything): https://github.com/geek1011/kobopatc...498f69a26699ea

[JeanPierre]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

Having finally installed the 4.17 firmware, I must say I'm disappointed by the look of the new reading menu. I don't like the bold sans-serif font for "Back to ..." and the chapter title. I also miss the icon for reading progress, because I used to check that regularly. Neither am I a fan of the sans-serif font for chapter title and book title in the header and footer.
Would it be possible to create a patch to change the font and font style to what it was before, i.e. the Kobo default font in FW 4.15? And also display an icon for reading progress?

I would also like to humbly request that it be considered whether it is possible to make a patch to reinsert the reading progress icon so that it is only one click away once into the reading menu.

It's not obvious to me why Kobo decided to encapsulate what would be three icons into one in this menu, since there seems to be sufficient space to fit the adjacent text in all the scenarios I've been able to produce—I had been trying to make the text long enough that it might encroach upon the space available for icons.

EDIT: Upon further inspection, what has happened makes even less sense to me. The three items which appear under the ellipsis submenu at the top right are View Details, Dictionary, and Reading Progress. Without having to click on this ellipsis icon you can instead click on the magnifying glass icon to get to a dictionary search with a single click. This means that the Dictionary link in the submenu is redundant, and the ellipsis submenu could be replaced by two icons that link directly to book details and reading progress. Instead they require users to click twice to show the reading progress, and then another two times to hide the reading progress before selecting anything else from the menu. Is this not a terrible implementation in terms of usability? Might it be possible to correct this with a patch?

[Chaplan]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

I don't know if anybody mentioned it in the patching thread for the newest firmware, but there is a problem with the screen rotation menu on the Clara HD. The words "Portrait" and "Landscape" are cut off, you can just see the half of the second letters.
Also, the icon was removed from the reading menu. Is there any way to get it back? It's kind of counter-intuitive that you have to go to the main menu to change the screen rotation. If it's not possible to change this by patch, I hope Kobo will change it back again.

I found that a bit odd also, but as a first time patch user I thought it was just like that.
I get the same behaviour as you stated on my Clara HD.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

I don't know if anybody mentioned it in the patching thread for the newest firmware, but there is a problem with the screen rotation menu on the Clara HD. The words "Portrait" and "Landscape" are cut off, you can just see the half of the second letters.
Also, the icon was removed from the reading menu. Is there any way to get it back? It's kind of counter-intuitive that you have to go to the main menu to change the screen rotation. If it's not possible to change this by patch, I hope Kobo will change it back again.

Originally Posted by geek1011

I've fixed both issues (but now there's a side effect of the Automatic option showing, but not doing anything): https://github.com/geek1011/kobopatc...498f69a26699ea

@geek1011,

I thought I should mention that the cut-off problem on the Portrait/Landscape menu also happens on completely un-kobopatched devices. I noticed it by accident on both my H2O and ClaraHD (both devices had the ForceAllowLandscape=true in the .conf file).

I'm not suggesting for a moment that you shouldn't try to fix it via kobopatch if you want to, just that kobopatch didn't create the problem.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

I don't know if anybody mentioned it in the patching thread for the newest firmware, but there is a problem with the screen rotation menu on the Clara HD. The words "Portrait" and "Landscape" are cut off, you can just see the half of the second letters.
Also, the icon was removed from the reading menu. Is there any way to get it back? It's kind of counter-intuitive that you have to go to the main menu to change the screen rotation. If it's not possible to change this by patch, I hope Kobo will change it back again.

As Kobo doesn't support rotation on the Clara HD, why should they have this icon available when reading? It is there for the devices where rotation is supported. And on these devices, it works differently. The option you are talking about is forcing landscape or portrait mode at all times. For the Forma and Libra, they only support landscape mode when reading. Hence, they only show the icon then.

[desterly]

This is just a "nice to have" but can we add a patch to libnickel to remove the exclusive hold on event0?

Miniclock does it on first boot if need be but it requires an extra reboot after patch install (yes I know I'm lazy)

from Miniclock:

sed -i -e 's@/dev/input/event0:keymap=keys/device.qmap:grab=1@/dev/input/event0:keymap=keys/device.qmap:grab=0@' "$libnickel"

[Knightreader]

I tried the dropbox integration on my Forma and it works fine. But the font size is a bit too much. Wish to change this to a smaller font size and, if possible, to smaller directory icons to get more ebooks/directories on the page listing.