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Old 08-21-2026, 12:57 PM   #1
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KUALA - Kindle Unified Application Launcher After (Java)

A full C++ rewrite of KUAL (Kindle Unified Application Launcher). It uses the Kindle's native GTK for the UI.

The original Java based KUAL stopped working on system versions starting at 5.19.4. This rewrite is made for system versions 5.19.x and later, but it will also work on many earlier versions as long as they are armhf.

All credit for KUAL goes to Twobob Ixtab Stepk Niluje.

https://bitbucket.org/ixtab/kindlelauncher

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=203326

https://github.com/coplate/KUAL_Booklet

Credit goes to Niels Lohmann for his JSON library for C++, https://github.com/nlohmann/json

Edit: I couldn't fit the whole title I wanted... "KUALA: Kindle Unified Application Launcher After (Java). A full C++ rewrite of KUAL for 5.19.x"
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Old 08-21-2026, 04:33 PM   #2
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Nice! I gave it a try on my Scribe 2022 running 5.19.6, but it fails due to calling a missing library. That seems to be a constant problem with the Scribes.

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/mnt/us/kuala/kuala: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It can't even start up enough to open and begin writing to run.log.
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Old 08-21-2026, 05:08 PM   #3
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Nice! I gave it a try on my Scribe 2022 running 5.19.6, but it fails due to calling a missing library. That seems to be a constant problem with the Scribes.

It can't even start up enough to open and begin writing to run.log.
Don't worry, I just uploaded version 1.1 that should fix it. Abiword will be fixed this weekend too.
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Old 08-22-2026, 04:26 PM   #4
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The build change fixed it. Thanks!
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