Unofficial patches for 4.44.23552

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by LakesideMiners

Apologizes if I am missing something obvious, but, should there be something more then just the nickel.yaml in the first post's attachment? Last time I downloaded it, it had a kobopatch.yaml and src and bin folder.

Check the first post for the correct file.

[Phil_C]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Check the first post for the correct file.

For "Remove Line From Bottom Tab Bar" in libnickel line 980, the offset needs to be 866. This allows the patch to be created, but it has no effect on the Clara BW. The line remains on the home screen.

Not a big deal. Just FYI.

(Earlier Claras HD an 2E still use offset 326 -- and the patch works. The line is removed.)

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Phil_C

For "Remove Line From Bottom Tab Bar" in libnickel line 980, the offset needs to be 866. This allows the patch to be created, but it has no effect on the Clara BW. The line remains on the home screen.

Not a big deal. Just FYI.

(Earlier Claras HD an 2E still use offset 326 -- and the patch works. The line is removed.)

It's not a patch I've ever used but I think you may be able to achieve this via a nickel.yaml CSS patch instead of the original patch from libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml.

If you want to try it, add the following patch to nickel.yaml (or your customised version of it) and enable it. To avoid confusion you should probably also disable the one in libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml.

Remove line from bottom tab bar via CSS:
  - Enabled: no
  - Description: Removes the line from the top of the bottom tab bar
  - FindZlib: "#activeTabLine" # qss/MainNavButton.qss
  - ReplaceZlibGroup:
      Replacements:
        - {Find: "border-top: 1px solid #666666;", Replace: "border-top: none"}

[Phil_C]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

It's not a patch I've ever used but I think you may be able to achieve this via a nickel.yaml CSS patch instead of the original patch from libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml.

If you want to try it, add the following patch to nickel.yaml (or your customised version of it) and enable it. To avoid confusion you should probably also disable the one in libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml.

Remove line from bottom tab bar via CSS:
  - Enabled: no
  - Description: Removes the line from the top of the bottom tab bar
  - FindZlib: "#activeTabLine" # qss/MainNavButton.qss
  - ReplaceZlibGroup:
      Replacements:
        - {Find: "border-top: 1px solid #666666;", Replace: "border-top: none"}

It works! One difference: There is a heavy line over the icon for the screen you are on -- Home, My Books, More. Not Nickel Menu. (I keep wi-fi off and do not use Discover.)

This is all good, as the bold highlight line over the currently in-use bold icon makes perfect sense. Not needed over Nickel Menu, since it's, well, just a pop-up menu.

Thanks @jackie_w. A genius solution, as usual!

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Phil_C

It works! One difference: There is a heavy line over the icon for the screen you are on -- Home, My Books, More. Not Nickel Menu. (I keep wi-fi off and do not use Discover.)

This is all good, as the bold highlight line over the currently in-use bold icon makes perfect sense. Not needed over Nickel Menu, since it's, well, just a pop-up menu.

If you would prefer to also remove those thick highlight bars over the currently-active icon then I think a simple tweak of the custom patch in post #18 should do the trick. Change the last line:

From:

        - {Find: "border-top: 1px solid #666666;", Replace: "border-top: none"}

To:

        - {Find: "solid", Replace: "none"}

[Phil_C]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

If you would prefer to also remove those thick highlight bars over the currently-active icon then I think a simple tweak of the custom patch in post #18 should do the trick. Change the last line:

From:

        - {Find: "border-top: 1px solid #666666;", Replace: "border-top: none"}

To:

        - {Find: "solid", Replace: "none"}

That works, too. Decisions, decisions...

Thanks!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

It's not a patch I've ever used but I think you may be able to achieve this via a nickel.yaml CSS patch instead of the original patch from libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml.

If you want to try it, add the following patch to nickel.yaml (or your customised version of it) and enable it. To avoid confusion you should probably also disable the one in libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml.

Remove line from bottom tab bar via CSS:
  - Enabled: no
  - Description: Removes the line from the top of the bottom tab bar
  - FindZlib: "#activeTabLine" # qss/MainNavButton.qss
  - ReplaceZlibGroup:
      Replacements:
        - {Find: "border-top: 1px solid #666666;", Replace: "border-top: none"}

Thank you for the fix. I've fixed this in the ZIP and replaced it.

Remove line from bottom tab bar via CSS: now works.

[Bookmonkey]

Up until i hit the latest forced firmware upgrade for Kobo Libra Color i was having success using the kobopatch 4.38.x with the latest firmware downloaded and manual editing the yaml to point to it. That isn't working now.

I found this thread and downloaded the zip in the first message, the appropriate firmware and ran the batch file (win10 64). The terminal fires up and immediately exits with nothing in the out folder - no tar and no log.

My only patch edits to the yaml are to say yes to larger covers in library and on Home Screen so I’m not using known non-working patches. I’m a bit lost since I’m not even getting a log file. How do I troubleshoot this? When I try to run the batch file in a 4.38.x version of kobopatch, with manual override to latest firmware, the terminal opens and appears to be applying the patches. However it exits prior to the end instead of where it used to say “waiting 60 seconds because it’s windows”. This is further than I get with the version of kobopatch from this thread where the terminal doesn’t even open long enough to show any messages.

I’d appreciate some guidance!

[PeterT]

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I'd rather open a command prompt, change to the correct directory and launch the command from the command line. That way I've a much better chance of seeing any error message.

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