NickelMenu: An integrated launcher for Kobo eReaders - Page 24

Rnway · 10-24-2020, 01:45 PM

Do you have any plans to support the context menu that comes up when you long press on a word/passage?

I would love, love, love to be able to add additional search engines here to search online dictionaries, and wikis for some fictional universes.

At the moment, I've been able to use KoboPatch to replace the default wikipedia search with a different wiki, but I got lucky that the URLs happen to be sorta compatible.

Rid · 11-01-2020, 04:31 PM

NickelMenu is fantastic. Did not realise what I was missing out on!

geek1011 · 11-11-2020, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Rnway

Do you have any plans to support the context menu that comes up when you long press on a word/passage?

That is something I'm currently looking into when I have time. I'm currently deciding what the most version-agnostic way to do this would be. I'm currently considering re-using the wikipedia search Qt slot for each menu item, then hooking the wikipedia search function to perform the custom action, but I haven't fully settled on this yet.

itsme2020 · 11-12-2020, 09:58 AM

Whoa - just discovered NickelMenu last night and I am loving it ! Great job !
Thank you for all the effort you put into it.

PS. Is there a possibility to add dividers (lines) between the menu items for better overview/grouping?

geek1011 · 11-12-2020, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by itsme2020

Whoa - just discovered NickelMenu last night and I am loving it ! Great job !
Thank you for all the effort you put into it.

You're welcome.

(and also thank sherman and NiLuJe for the initial discussion and testing)

Quote:

PS. Is there a possibility to add dividers (lines) between the menu items for better overview/grouping?

Aren't there already lines between the items?

Terisa de morgan · 11-12-2020, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by geek1011

Aren't there already lines between the items?

I don't think so. I've included separators creating lines with labels for options I don't use, but I haven't found the option for the separator.

NiLuJe · 11-12-2020, 10:28 AM

What @geek1011 meant to say is that there's *already* a separator between items.

On the Home, it's currently the faintest gray possible, IIRC. We've played with this in the past, as the default separator in the Reader was much darker, for instance.
I don't *think* the choice was ever exposed to the config, though, and I'm not sure how relevant that is since the new Home layout.

itsme2020 · 11-12-2020, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by NiLuJe

What @geek1011 meant to say is that there's *already* a separator between items.

On the Home, it's currently the faintest gray possible, IIRC. We've played with this in the past, as the default separator in the Reader was much darker, for instance.
I don't *think* the choice was ever exposed to the config, though, and I'm not sure how relevant that is since the new Home layout.

You are right - there are already lines between all items. Guess it was too late last night...

Terisa de morgan · 11-12-2020, 01:50 PM

You're right but it's between *every* item. I was thinking about something like this:

NiLuJe · 11-12-2020, 02:42 PM

@Terisa de morgan: What I was hinting at was that something like that would be better achieved via switching *specific* items to the pure black separator

.

(Or *remove it completely* from specific items, as I vaguely think that was in the cards, too, but I may be remembering that wrong).

compurandom · 11-12-2020, 02:50 PM

The point would be to group options and put major separators between the groups. Considering there are already separators, that could mean making some of them darker.

Terisa de morgan · 11-12-2020, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@Terisa de morgan: What I was hinting at was that something like that would be better achieved via switching *specific* items to the pure black separator

.

(Or *remove it completely* from specific items, as I vaguely think that was in the cards, too, but I may be remembering that wrong).

Yes, I think it was mentioned before, and I was thinking about that. In the meantime, I create the separator as best as I can

geek1011 · 11-14-2020, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Rnway

Do you have any plans to support the context menu that comes up when you long press on a word/passage?

I've started working on this, and I'll probably release it in December: https://github.com/pgaskin/NickelMenu/pull/94.

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Originally Posted by jackie_w

neatly display one .png per line, which was easier to read (if I wanted to). I know it's only cosmetic but I'm passing it on anyway ...

Fixed, will be released in v0.4.1, probably in a few days: https://github.com/pgaskin/NickelMenu/pull/95.

geek1011 · 11-17-2020, 10:51 PM

NickelMenu v0.4.1

This release contains minor bugfixes.

An issue where cmd_output does not display newlines has been fixed.
Result messages are now decoded as utf-8 instead of latin-1 so they are handled by Qt properly.

See the release on GitHub for more details.

anki · 11-20-2020, 07:15 PM

Can somone please upload a working sample config file? I don't really understand what to change in that DOC file. I know that i must save as config in de directory but i get config error on the Kobo.

I see well the icon NickelMenu on the right corner.

11-12-2020, 01:50 PM	#354
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,686 Karma: 12595249 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	You're right but it's between every item. I was thinking about something like this: Attached Thumbnails

11-17-2020, 10:51 PM	#359
geek1011 Wizard Posts: 2,808 Karma: 7423683 Join Date: May 2016 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo Mini, Aura Edition 2 v1, Clara HD, Clara BW, Libra Colour	NickelMenu v0.4.1 This release contains minor bugfixes. An issue where cmd_output does not display newlines has been fixed. Result messages are now decoded as utf-8 instead of latin-1 so they are handled by Qt properly. See the release on GitHub for more details.

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10-24-2020, 01:45 PM	#346
Rnway Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Do you have any plans to support the context menu that comes up when you long press on a word/passage? I would love, love, love to be able to add additional search engines here to search online dictionaries, and wikis for some fictional universes. At the moment, I've been able to use KoboPatch to replace the default wikipedia search with a different wiki, but I got lucky that the URLs happen to be sorta compatible.

11-01-2020, 04:31 PM	#347
Rid Addict Posts: 209 Karma: 20980 Join Date: Oct 2020 Device: Kobo Aura One, Aura HD (R.I.P.) :(	NickelMenu is fantastic. Did not realise what I was missing out on!

11-12-2020, 09:58 AM	#349
itsme2020 Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2020 Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Whoa - just discovered NickelMenu last night and I am loving it ! Great job ! Thank you for all the effort you put into it. PS. Is there a possibility to add dividers (lines) between the menu items for better overview/grouping?

11-12-2020, 10:28 AM	#352
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	What @geek1011 meant to say is that there's already a separator between items. On the Home, it's currently the faintest gray possible, IIRC. We've played with this in the past, as the default separator in the Reader was much darker, for instance. I don't think the choice was ever exposed to the config, though, and I'm not sure how relevant that is since the new Home layout.

11-12-2020, 02:42 PM	#355
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@Terisa de morgan: What I was hinting at was that something like that would be better achieved via switching specific items to the pure black separator . (Or remove it completely from specific items, as I vaguely think that was in the cards, too, but I may be remembering that wrong).

11-12-2020, 02:50 PM	#356
compurandom Wizard Posts: 1,026 Karma: 500000 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Rocketbook, kobo aura h2o, kobo forma, kobo libra color	The point would be to group options and put major separators between the groups. Considering there are already separators, that could mean making some of them darker.

11-20-2020, 07:15 PM	#360
anki Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 550 Join Date: Apr 2015 Device: Kobo Glo HD \| KSM9 \| KoReader \| Plato	Can somone please upload a working sample config file? I don't really understand what to change in that DOC file. I know that i must save as config in de directory but i get config error on the Kobo. I see well the icon NickelMenu on the right corner.