09-14-2019, 07:48 AM | #91 |
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Is there a patch to change anything on the home screen? My devices are not updated past 4.03. if I recall. One reason is because of the home screen change around that time.
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09-14-2019, 10:07 AM | #92 | |
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You’re still limited to 4 currently reading though as this is essentially hardcoded into the firmware However patches for 4.16 don’t exist as of yet. |
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09-14-2019, 10:51 AM | #93 | |
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I know that is a super minor issue in the grand scheme of things, but it was always irritating to me, for some reason, and there for a *long* time. |
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09-14-2019, 10:53 AM | #94 |
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... and it's likely to stay that way.
fw 4.16.x is very different from 4.15.x and many patches need a re-write if that is possible, which isn't guaranteed. Based on some of davidfor's post fw 4.17.x is also very different from 4.16.x. It's just not worth the effort (IMHO) busting a gut to get 4.16.x patched. Once 4.17.x arrives we'll see what can be done. It will probably need effort from all patch creators. It's not clear how many of those are still active at MR. If there are any orphaned patches which no longer work they may need a new volunteer foster-parent before they can be resurrected - assuming resurrection is even possible. I don't want to be a kill-joy it's just that expectations need to be realistic once 4.17.x arrives. |
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09-14-2019, 11:17 AM | #96 | |
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As for adopting patches, I'm planning to rewrite or deprecate Oren's patches, but most will be rewritten. The issue with them are they were just simple ports rewriting the whole stream, which isn't really feasible to update easily, and is quite fragile. I'm rewriting them to use the relatively new ReplaceZlibGroup instruction (it counters compression issues with many small replacements). I'm also adding comments and support for the newer language changes and a few device-related changes. For an example of this, see the rewritten kepub progress chart patch (it's now at the bottom of src/versions/4.16.13337/libnickel.so.1.0.0/geek1011.yaml). As for the patches which will be deprecated or rewritten (so far), see src/version/4.16.13337/patches.md on GitHub. |
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09-14-2019, 11:23 AM | #97 |
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The release of 4.16 gives interested people time to re-work patches for the new UI. As incomplete as the patch is, (apparently), it's *very* thoughtful of Kobo to make this release.
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09-14-2019, 11:34 AM | #98 | |
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09-14-2019, 11:36 AM | #99 | |
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I'm hoping that once the patches are done for 4.16, that it will be fairly easy to port them to 4.17. |
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09-14-2019, 12:05 PM | #100 |
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Will the advanced font options patch need to be rewritten too?
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09-14-2019, 12:08 PM | #101 | |
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Some of the old patches will run without error in 4.16.x it's just that they don't actually do anything to the new page layout. My 'Custom menubar - reduce height by 33%' (and the 50% equivalent) are examples of this. I did find some new CSS to patch but in 4.16.x it looks hideous when patched. 4.17 may work better but it's equally possible the patch won't be needed at all in 4.17. I haven't had much time to play yet because I'm busy with calibre 4 beta but I'm hoping to get back to it next week. |
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Having said that, if there's a patch that swapped header and footer info so at the bottom of the screen I have a footer showing me chapter title and pages left in the chapter on top of the overall progress bar, that would be best for me. |
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09-14-2019, 05:54 PM | #103 |
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09-14-2019, 06:51 PM | #104 |
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09-14-2019, 06:58 PM | #105 |
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Pardon my ignorance how does one go about snagging the patches that have been updated from github? And is it just grabbing the nickel, Adobe, rmsdk, and libnickle files or would I have to compile anything?
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