Tiny trick to koreader mini progress bar

[stbinan]

Feel annoying the same with me the mini progress bar appears when you just want to go to the next page?

Here is my trick:

open /koreader/defaults.lua as text file, search 'minibar' (no quotation mark) and modify the line below:

DTAP_ZONE_MINIBAR = {x = 0, y = 15/16, w = 1, h = 1/16}

-- customizable tap zones(rectangles)
-- x: x coordinate of top left corner in proportion of screen width
-- y: y coordinate of top left corner in proportion of screen height
-- w: width of tap zone in proportion of screen width
-- h: height of tap zone in proportion of screen height

So I changed x=0 to x = 1/4, w = 1 to w = 1/4 and the tap area is limited from 1/4 to 1/2 of the width.

continue searching and get:

-- configure "mini" progress bar
DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE = false
DMINIBAR_PROGRESSBAR = true
DMINIBAR_TIME = true
DMINIBAR_PAGES = true
DMINIBAR_NEXT_CHAPTER = true
DMINIBAR_BATTERY = true

I just prefer it to show time and pages and all at once, so I deleted

DMINIBAR_NEXT_CHAPTER = true
DMINIBAR_BATTERY = true

and change DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE = false to DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE = true

Everything works fine

[HarryT]

Moved to to the dev forum, since this is not about the Kindle's standard firmware.

[hawhill]

A short note: Don't change defaults.lua, the changes will get overwritten by the next update. Rather create or edit a file defaults.persistent.lua and just put the changed lines in there. Instead of deleting the lines where the variables are being set to true, just replace "true" by "false" (without parenthesis).

[stbinan]

Originally Posted by hawhill

A short note: Don't change defaults.lua, the changes will get overwritten by the next update. Rather create or edit a file defaults.persistent.lua and just put the changed lines in there. Instead of deleting the lines where the variables are being set to true, just replace "true" by "false" (without parenthesis).

Thank you for the tip

[roger64]

As regards the first message of this thread, I read different values in my defaults.lua file:

-- configure "mini" progress bar
DMINIBAR_TOC_MARKER_WIDTH = 2   -- Looses usefulness > 3
DMINIBAR_HEIGHT = 7             -- Should be smaller than DMINIBAR_CONTAINER_HEIGHT
DMINIBAR_CONTAINER_HEIGHT = 14  -- Larger means more padding at the bottom, at the risk of eating into the last line
DMINIBAR_FONT_SIZE = 14

Can I add some of the values up there like the following?

DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE = true
DMINIBAR_PROGRESSBAR = true
DMINIBAR_TIME = false
DMINIBAR_PAGES = true
DMINIBAR_NEXT_CHAPTER = false
DMINIBAR_BATTERY = true

I have a three-weeks old build of Koreader.


Edit: I tried it but it changes nothing. so I erased my changes

[knavite]

Originally Posted by roger64

Edit: I tried it but it changes nothing. so I erased my changes

Hi Roger64,

I was able to set 'DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE' on my touch. Refer here

[roger64]

Hi

This above trick is still working on jailbroken PW3. Thanks again.

[loviedovie]

Hi

Would that work for Android version? If so, am I supposed to put this under sdcard/koreader or /data/data/koreder folder?

Originally Posted by hawhill

A short note: Don't change defaults.lua, the changes will get overwritten by the next update. Rather create or edit a file defaults.persistent.lua and just put the changed lines in there. Instead of deleting the lines where the variables are being set to true, just replace "true" by "false" (without parenthesis).

[roger64]

Hi

After the last OTA update, instead of my chosen "all at once" minibar elements (time, page and battery), I now have a fourth one, a progress bar alongside the previous three.

I do not know how to get rid of this latest element, the progress bar.

Here is what one can find in my persistent.lua file:

-- configure "mini" progress bar
DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE = true
DMINIBAR_PROGRESSBAR = false
DMINIBAR_TIME = true
DMINIBAR_PAGES = true
DMINIBAR_NEXT_CHAPTER = false
DMINIBAR_BATTERY = true

[Alan_S]

There was bug with progress bar visible even if turned off. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/2303

Now I tested my version (694) and after that it looks that progress bar can't be removed, you can just control if it contains chapter marks or not within progress bar. You control this from koreader menu.

[roger64]

@Alan

Thanks for the link, I was not aware of it. So t seems that 15 days ago there has been a "footer refactoring" of some kind.

I used a Kindle version (not a Kobo) v2015.11-675-g09f2db3 and updated again today to v2015.11-694-g64bc5cd (so it seems the version you were referring to).

Unhappily, as you confirm it, even after restart, the progress bar stays put even if it should not. I will report this to git-hub.

Done #2361

[trekk]

@roger64: Thanks for opening a bug-report.

It seems like this behaviour of the progress bar isn't a bug, as the option to toggle the bar has been removed intentionally. Be that as it may, I would like to get that option back.

[roger64]

Originally Posted by trekk

@roger64: Thanks for opening a bug-report.

It seems like this behaviour of the progress bar isn't a bug, as the option to toggle the bar has been removed intentionally. Be that as it may, I would like to get that option back.

Indeed. And the quick reaction to it shows that toying unilaterally with the screen display hits a sensitive spot. Each one has its own idea about it.

[stevenam]

The mod on footnote mysteriously disappeared today, even I turned off and on the setting in KOReader. Guess that I need to uninstall KO Reader and do it over again.