kobopatch request thread

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by egin

I have changed the nickel file to this entry:

Remove recommendations (row1col2) from home screen:
  - Enabled: yes
  - Description: |
      By default, when there are less than 2 books open, a recommendations
      column shows in the top right of the home screen. This patch hides it.
  - ReplaceBytes:
      Base:           "HomePageView::configureTopRight(HomePageWidgets)"
      Offset:         48
      FindH:          58 B1 # never skip hiding the top-right widget
      ReplaceInstNOP: true

somehow it was not changed after i patched the created firmware.

Works for me. Apparently something has gone wrong in your case. Did you enable other patches and if so, did those work?

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by egin

I have changed the nickel file to this entry:

Remove recommendations (row1col2) from home screen:
  - Enabled: yes
  - Description: |
      By default, when there are less than 2 books open, a recommendations
      column shows in the top right of the home screen. This patch hides it.
  - ReplaceBytes:
      Base:           "HomePageView::configureTopRight(HomePageWidgets)"
      Offset:         48
      FindH:          58 B1 # never skip hiding the top-right widget
      ReplaceInstNOP: true

somehow it was not changed after i patched the created firmware.

Which recommendations are you seeing? IIRC (it's been a while), this patched doesn't deal with all of them.

[egin]

hey!

The recomodations for the kobo store, which are on the left site of the ereader on the last row. Next to it is also something like a tip for a next read.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by egin

hey!

The recomodations for the kobo store, which are on the left site of the ereader on the last row. Next to it is also something like a tip for a next read.

Wait a sec, are you referring to the SmartLinks (the two links at the bottom, directly above the navigation bar, with the left one being the Kobo Store, and the right one rotating)? If so, there is a group of patches which allows you to change the text and target of these links.

[egin]

yes exactly! those i need to take away

[egin]

do you have a good idea what to replace it with or how i can deactivate it?

[Aleron Ives]

If you don't care about syncing, you can enable sideload mode to remove the Home screen entirely.

[egin]

@Aleron this sounds interesting. what would be on the home screen then? Just the librarby?

[Aleron Ives]

There is no Home screen. My Books becomes the default screen, and Discover is replaced with Activity.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by egin

do you have a good idea what to replace it with or how i can deactivate it?

Look at the SmartLink patches.

[SpeakingOfBrad]

Is there a way to invert colors for everything except the covers?
I'm already using Invert Screen, but I wish the covers didn't get inverted too.
Or another way to do it would be to invert the covers, and then also invert the screen so the covers are back to normal.

[DNSB]

Since you list a Libra 2 as your reading device, you could try Dark Mode which is supported on Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Clara 2E, and Kobo Elipsa 2E.

[SpeakingOfBrad]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Since you list a Libra 2 as your reading device, you could try Dark Mode which is supported on Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Clara 2E, and Kobo Elipsa 2E.

Yeah, I used to use dark mode but I switched to the inverted screen mode so that all of the menus and all parts of the GUI are dark too. I hate when reading a book at night and then I highlight a word to get it's definition and get blasted by a bright white box.

I guess what I'm really looking for is a full dark theme for the device, and inverted screen mode gets really really close to that.

[JSWolf]

The choices are Dark Mode or Inverted. There is no other choice.

[SpeakingOfBrad]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The choices are Dark Mode or Inverted. There is no other choice.

I am using Inverted.
But what I would like to use is Inverted with a patch that inverts the cover images (so that they're displayed normally). But I don't want the patch to invert he images within the book as most of the images I've seen are just page decoration (mainly at the start of a chapter) and they appear with a white background in Dark Mode but look correct in Inverted.

I found this thread which says it's possible to invert the images within the book, so it seems like it may be possible to invert the covers with a patch.


I kindly request a patch to invert the cover images (for use with inverted screen mode).