Glo HD Hacks, Mods and Ideas, work in progress

[menneske]

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[menneske]

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[NiMa]

Originally Posted by menneske

- koreader - screenshots, internet browser, more [written in lua] http://koreader.rocks/
- Plato [written in Qt] https://github.com/baskerville/plato

Very good list, but let me correct two things:
1. Plato is written in Rust, not Qt.
2. KOReader, AFAIK, doesn't include any sort of a web browser.

and thanks for KoBox, too!

[NiLuJe]

Originally Posted by menneske

- Full-screen on/off (remove header/footer)
1. Attach Kobo to PC/Mac with USB cable and click transfer mode on KOBO screen.
2. Locate "Kobo eReader.config" on the KOBO eReader/.kobo folder.
3. Ctrl-click or right-click on "Kobo eReader.config" and open file with a basic text-editing program like TextEdit, BBEdit or Notepad.
4. Add the following code to the file at the bottom - or anywhere, as long as it's separate from the other code:
[FeatureSettings] FullScreenReading=true
5. Save and safely eject your Kobo eReader.
6. Go to Reading Settings on Kobo. A checkbox now allows to remove header and footer to enable fullscreen mode.

Has been deprecated for a good long while, the header/footer individual toggles have been standard for... oh, surely over a year now, if not more?

Originally Posted by menneske

LAUNCHER/BOOTLOADER is usually the first software to run after power-up or reset; it is highly processor and board specific. A bootloader (similar to GRUB on Linus) gives you a pre-OS menu, which allows you to select the OS to boot. On Kobo it uses trigger files to boot to another OS or document reader [often simple drawings saved as jpg-files]. KSM and kfmon are easier to set up than fmon, as this requires reinstall following every update. All have different other features.

- kobo start menu (KSM) - obsolete
- kfmon
- fmon

My brain hurts. And this is all kinds of wrong. fmon has been deprecated for years, and KFMon, does, in fact, require a reinstall after a FW update.

Originally Posted by menneske

- Clara HD https://www.yingtongli.me/blog/2018/07/29/kobo-sd.html

*insert Wilhelm scream here*.

While the effort is laudable, and some bits are fun to read, this is a *terrible* example for Joe Random to follow, as most of it is exceedingly over-engineered, and much simpler solutions exist.

[NiMa]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Has been deprecated for a good long while, the header/footer individual toggles have been standard for... oh, surely over a year now, if not more?



My brain hurts. And this is all kinds of wrong. fmon has been deprecated for years, and KFMon, does, in fact, require a reinstall after a FW update.



*insert Wilhelm scream here*.

While the effort is laudable, and some bits are fun to read, this is a *terrible* idea for Joe Random to follow, as most of it is exceedingly over-engineered, and much simpler solutions exist.

@menneske : To add to what NiLuJe said, you should remove any reference to a "bootloader" here. And forget about comparing it with GRUB. It's not the same thing *at all* (except maybe for KSM, but I don't know all the details about it).
Speaking of KSM, you should remove it from your list. It has since the start of the last year been replaced with more secure and less prone-to-crashes addons (i.e. NickelMenu).
Also to add more, none of the "OS'es" you mentioned are actually operating systems (even my KoBox). An appropriate replacement could be "Enhancements" or "Linux subsystems".

But still, nice attempt

[Elektron]

Yes, all of the "bootloaders" mentioned seem to more of launchers. However, I'd really like a bootloader to experiment with ! But regardless, great attempt! Some of these are quite obsolete, but I assume you can edit youroriginal post.

[menneske]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

My brain hurts.

all is deleted. Take no more pills.

[menneske]

Don't worry. I wont bother you again.

Bring on the simple, updated list, then.

[NiMa]

Originally Posted by menneske

Don't worry. I wont bother you again.

Bring on the simple, updated list, then.

Couldn't you bring up the list you made yesterday again? We could review it and change things together, if you don't mind ...
Some things in your list were very good, not all should've been changed!

Also it would be good if we brought up an updated list, because the older ones are quite outdated
I'm sorry if we got you sad, this was not our intent at all (at least not for me)