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07-19-2013, 03:38 PM | #1 |
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Wikipedia, new translation options, and many other tweaks to nickel
A few tips tested on the mini, (probably works on other kobos) that I have not seen reported yet?
Also a lot of new possibilities for others to test further, and please report back to this forum Apart from the options already enter in the “kobo eReader.conf” file, according to the string found in libnickel library, a few more is possible to activate options in nickel not accessible from gui. Under the section of: [FeatureSettings] • AllowDevConsole=true Activates a new button at the end of the settings list. This button opens a page with 3 buttons, “fonts test”, “Activites” (empty, probably a log) and “save” (Report if your find out what it does). • GestureKeyboard=trueWhen dragging your finger across the keyboard, a line is drawn. Probably like a swepe keyboard found on mobile phones, but without a T9-lookup this seems pointless. Report if your find out what it can be used for • OnlineWikipedia=true Wikipedia in kobobooks GREAT! When longpressing a word in a kobobook, using the dictionary menu, a new items give access to online lookup in Wikipedia. Needs wifi. The whole reason I started to look in the binary libnickel was to find how to activate the libwikipedia.so library found in /usr/local/kobo/. - Now I just need to find a way to activate libcrossword There is some strange things with the fonts in the Wikipedia dialog, when you do the second lookup, the fonts changes. • PhraseTranslation=trueLike the Wikipedia, highlight a whole sentence in a kobobook, then use the dictionary menu to translate the whole sentence to another language. Uses online translation, so it needs wifi. • TelnetConsole=Unknown, does NOT enable a telnet login over wifi, somebody try if this work over usb • BookSpecificStats=trueEnables more stats when pressing the % read in the lower left corner. • FullBookPageNumbers=Might be pagenumber for full book rather than for each chapter? The rest of the options is not tested, please try them out, and report back if you find out what they are for. Also please notice that I’m not exactly sure that they are listed under the correct section. (between brackets[]) So test them in other sections, if they do not seem to work in the ones listed below. [Services] • AbTestURL • DictionaryUrl • PeriodicSyncEnabled [LibraryTabSettings] • lastRecommendationPaletteWidth • lastRecommendationViewIndex [ReadingLife] • MarketingMessages [TasteQuizSettings] • lastTasteQuizRatedCount • lastTasteQuizInterestedCount • lastTasteQuizNotInterestedCount • lastTasteQuizItemsRated • lastTasteQuizItemsShown • tasteQuizEnabled [FeatureSettings] • TasteProfile • SelectiveSync • ReadingTimePerDay • FullScreenBrowser • TestSync • Thesaurus [ApplicationPreferences] • ClockDisplayDuration • ExtraLocales • SyncAnimationSpeed • NumMaxToasts • SyncShelves • ShowBrightnessToast • QuickTourShown • Debugging=true WARNING this turns off sleep timeout, and burns battery. • PromotionsAvailable[Browser] • SwipeDialogShown=true Might have something to do with the Wikipedia dialog, its possible to “swipe” the dialog pages without using the small page arrows on the button [ReadingLife]• readingAdobeShowPageNumbers • libraryShowCovers • readingBGColor • readingTextColor • readingTheme Listed below are some strings listed after readingTheme, might be different themes • Kepub-book-theme- • Sepia • Night Hey maybe “Night” is a reversed display like the night mode hack. Or the readingBGColor and readingTextColor above can be used for the same effect. Happy hacking all – kobo sure has a lot of easter eggs in this little gem of a ebook |
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This is a mix of hidden options, options that are automatically set when you do something and options that are only on some of the devices. The latter are mainly for the Aura HD, but the Glo gets a few as well.
I have been playing with the "FeatureSettings" and a couple of the others for the last week or so. But, I am also running beta firmware, and hadn't checked which were new and which already existed. It appears that most have been there for a while. My testing is on an Touch (N905) and a Glo. Note: Any experiments with the hidden options are at your own risk. There might be a good reason for Kobo not turning the function on. And "doesn't work properly" is the most likely reason. Quote:
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07-20-2013, 12:11 AM | #3 |
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Anyone following this might also be interested in all the options and features that are being added to the Kobo devices through the continuing development of Giorgio130's Koreader port to Kobo https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=216960 and Sergeyvl12's Launcher and new File Monitor https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=201632
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=218283 The last few weeks have seen very dramatic progress so that they are ready for more general use beyond just the Development Corner crowd. Luck; Ken |
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[FeatureSettings]
ImageZoom=true shows also an effect. |
07-21-2013, 02:51 AM | #5 |
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Ok... with Wikipedia and Google translate on Kobo I could turn on wifi in my house
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07-21-2013, 05:17 AM | #6 |
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guys, thank you and karma: i've added the thesaurus, wikipedia and sentence translation, and so far they seem to work well (with the limitations indicated by davidfor).
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07-22-2013, 04:52 AM | #7 |
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thesaurus, wikipedia and sentence translation work with firmware 2.5.2 in kepubs, and in sideloaded epubs aswell.
Really great find, the wikipedia linkin and online translation was the major thing I missed from the sonys. |
07-24-2013, 06:04 AM | #8 |
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GUI 1.Press search 2. select library search Search string: demo mode on demo mode off Config entries [ApplicationPreferences] CurrentDemoRegion= [FeatureSettings] DemoMode=true Not new but take a look. [FeatureSettings] ShowLayoutRectangles=true This adds rectangles around the sentences in kepub mode. ExportHighlightsEnabled= [true or false] Seems to have no effect. [Reading] ReadingPublisherMode= [integer value] No effect Last edited by Anak; 07-24-2013 at 02:12 PM. |
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07-25-2013, 05:09 AM | #10 |
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Great stuff, though I wonder how it works for the following options :
wikipedia : does it search on the english wikipedia, or does it consider your kobo language setting and search in the appropriate wikipedia ? online translation : does it guess the source language from the metadata in the book and the target language from the kobo language setting, or do you get to choose both language ? also, is it not too slow since it has to access the web for translating ? |
07-25-2013, 08:32 AM | #11 |
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The question is when will some of the basic features end up in the GUI?
Just as show/hide Adobe page numbers. Enable or disable Reading Settings as:
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07-25-2013, 09:18 AM | #12 |
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I don't think they will ever appear as options. I would expect when Kobo is ready, a lot will just be turned on and appear. This would be the case for the BookSpecificStats or the online lookup options. FullBookPageNumbers and maybe some of the others would need to be options.
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07-25-2013, 09:32 AM | #13 |
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When enabled, this adds an extra option to the book menu in the library list. It was something like "Export highlights". When selected, it prompts for a file name and writes the highlights and annotations to the file as text. The file went into the root of the partition. From memory, it didn't include any context or position information for where to find the highlight in the book.
One that has been missed is "Screenshots=true". With this, the device periodically takes a screenshot and saves it to the disk. I think there was another option near this that looked like it should set the timing of the screenshots. Of course, the only way to start and stop the screen shots is to connect to the PC and change the setting. |
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