Muon is nice for quickly being able to select multiple things at once and it searches while you type. They’re just a few little UI conveniences. Synaptic is seemingly identical, but there you have to authenticate even before performing any actions, which makes it much more annoying to use.
dget -xu http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/muon/muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1.dsc
cd muon-5.8.0
dch --local ~frenzie "forwardport"
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa
cd ..
sudo apt install ./muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1~frenzie1_amd64.deb
For more info on how to backport packages, see this random search result.
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]]>The cover grid is now adjustable, allowing you to display more or fewer book covers at once (#11232).
In more technical news, the CSS pseudoclasses :is(), :where() and :not() are now supported (#11353), as well as a private syntax extension for matching text in user stylesheets (#11323). Also of note is the new HttpInspector plugin, that can be used to inspect KOReader internals while it’s running (#11457). This can be useful when the program is running on a device.
Last but not least, the user guide received a big update again by @offset-torque, full details here.
This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
percent - unopened - 100% or complete
sorting method (#11369, #11472) @hasezoeytext/html
mimetype as starting with rather than exactly (#11492) @FrenzieFull changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>We wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2024!
Image credit for snowy mountains: Bing Dall-E
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>Image credit: Bing Image Creator (Dall-E 3)
The user guide has had a big update. Included below is the full release announcement.
This is the biggest ever update to the guide. 2 years ago I started with the intention to make a simple how-to guide. With this release, user guide reached 60 A4 pages ! KOReader might be the best documented reader app now
Our guide is now a HTML document:
https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/
It was very tedious to recreate the PDF as a web page (especially considering that I had to learn CSS to do it).
But there are many benefits like:
– More frequent and real-time updates
– Better compatibility for smaller devices
– Ability to directly link to it in issues and discussions
– Possibility to be packed as an EPUB
– PDF sucks
Also I recently noticed that our color palette in the guide was not suitable for color blind people. Some important items were indistinguishable for color blind users so I updated the colors to provide nice contrast for them too. Also added icons and visual aids to make the text more accessible.
GUIDE CHANGES:
MAJOR CHANGES:
ADDED INFO ABOUT:
UPDATED IMAGES:
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
input_no_key_repeat
survives a suspend/resume cycle (#10904) @NiLuJeFull changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>Because this wasn’t immediately obvious to me, since it’s experimental you have to use the RADV_PERFTEST=rt
environment variable to enable it, i.e., something like:
RADV_PERFTEST=rt ./q2rtx
That way I can play Quake 2 RTX at over 40 fps in 640 × 480 on Mesa 22.0. Apparently the game doesn’t allow for lower resolutions, even though I believe it once defaulted to 320×200 at 256 colors. Oh well.
PS I actually wrote this draft over a year ago, intending to expand on it. But oh well, my bad.
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]]>Which plant bravely withstood the drought and now the wetness? Lavender of course! You can eat them too.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
The post KOReader 2023.08 “Lavender” was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
]]>Hydrangea seems to be the common English name for what I know as the hortensia. They’re quite pretty this month, with bumblebees buzzing all around.
This will be the final release to support Android 4.0 – Android 4.2, after which support for those versions will be removed. The new minimum supported version will be Jelly Bean MR2 (API18/Android 4.3). For more information see #10614.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
The post KOReader 2023.06 “Hydrangea” was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
]]>This is neat. The FSF published an interview with me about KOReader. You can read it here.
Like any human I’m a bag of contradictions. I often studiously upload the correct cover to LibraryThing, yet in KOReader I’m perfectly satisfied with auto-generated covers if the metadata doesn’t specify any. But if you’re not, and you don’t want to edit the file itself, you can now set custom covers right within KOReader (#10329). A custom cover can be added or removed in the program through the book information page, or you can put a cover image in the .sdr folder manually.
Of course there are many other improvements. Enjoy!
Image credit: adapted from Bilder ur Nordens flora.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
addCurrentLocationToStack
(#10387) @yparitcherFull changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>The post My Interview with the Free Software Foundation was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
]]>It’s been another busy month squashing many bugs. Our Mac users will be happy to hear that I told macOS we’ve supported HiDPI since long before anyone came up with such terminology (#10341), and that the program can now natively build on M1 devices (#10291).
Solar panel credit: https://openclipart.org/detail/294030/solar-energy by gnokii
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
kodev check
feature complete (#8682) @yparitcherFull changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>The post A fantasy creature called a JavaScript lounging on a bed being stroked by an Icelander in a romantic ominous painting style was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
]]>Android users on aarch64 are advised not to use the built-in updater until after installing this release (#10068). On systems supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit the 32-bit version will be installed; on systems only supporting 64-bit the upgrade should normally refuse to install.
For advanced users, there’s a new patch manager to easily enable or disable patches (#9970). See here for more information about how to set it up. Be cautious and don’t play with it if you’re not prepared to have to intervene from outside to fix things.
A big under the hood change is partial rerendering (#10124), which enables seeing the results of changed display settings much more quickly:
With EPUB documents (having multiple fragments), text appearance adjustments can be made quicker by only rendering the current chapter.
After such partial renderings, the book and KOReader are in a degraded state: you can turn pages, but some info and features may be broken or disabled (ie. footer info, ToC, statistics…).
To get back to a sane state, a full rendering will happen in the background, get cached, and the document will be seamlessly reloaded after a brief period of inactivity.
An icon in the top left (that you will soon be ignoring) indicates at what step this process is:
Document is partially rendered. Page count, footer info and many things are innacurate. Reading statistics accounting is disabled. You can turn pages, jump links, notice how the new settings look, change settings again…
A full rendering is happening in the background. You can still turn pages, jump links, change settings…
The full rendering is done, but not yet applied: KOReader is waiting for you to be idle to reload. You can still turn pages, jump links, change settings…
You’ve been idle, KOReader is blocked and reloading the document, which should be quick.
When these icons are gone, you are again in a fully sane and working state.
This feature can be disabled per book with tap, or globally with long-press, onGear > Document > [x] Enable partial renderings
.
Cherry blossom credit: https://openclipart.org/detail/254453/cherry-blossoms
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>A slightly belated happy new year everyone! It’s a pretty big release, see the technical changelog underneath for details.
A big thanks to @offset-torque for updating the user guide once again, available here. Full changes here.
Ivy from https://www.openclipart.org/detail/307775/ivy-leaves-frame-5
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
The post KOReader 2023.01 “Winter Ivy” was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
]]>I’m filling in last minute for our regular artist. Everything’s well, not to worry. On Android our build system now supports AArch64, but they’re not officially part of the release yet.
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
The post KOReader 2022.11 “Froggy” was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
]]>kinetic-proposed
repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list
, apt update
, grab the new 3.0.6-2ubuntu2 version of DKMS, and enjoy your working Nvidia card. Alternatively you could go through the regular backport procedures, but in this case why bother.
# proposed for dkms fix
# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1991725
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic-proposed main
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]]>We skipped last month’s release because I was right in the middle of moving, which serendipitously coincided with fairly drastic changes that needed more time for testing, such as a big rewrite of gestures and multitouch (#9463).
Users of the Dropbox plugin will now be able to use the new short-lived tokens (#9496).
One of the more visible additions is the new Chinese keyboard contributed by @weijiuqiao, based on the stroke input method (#9572). It’s not smart and it requires knowledge of stroke order. A tutorial can be found here, part of which I will reproduce below.
The stroke input method groups character strokes into five categories. Then any character is typed by its stroke order.
Key | Stroke type |
---|---|
一 |
Horizontal or rising stroke |
丨 |
Vertical or vertical with hook |
丿 |
Falling left |
丶 |
Dot or falling right |
|
Turning |
For example, to input 大, keys 一丿丶
are used.
Note all turning strokes are input with a single key as long as they are written in one go. So 马 is input with
一
.
After getting the intended character, a 分隔
(Separate) or 空格
(Space) key should be used to finish the input. Otherwise, strokes of the next character will be appended to that of the current one thus changing the character.
Besides, the keyboard layout contains a wildcard key *
to use in place of any uncertain stroke.
Swipe north on the 分隔
(Separate) key for quick deletion of unfinished strokes.
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>The heat a couple of weeks ago got in the way of preparing the release, but here it is!
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>The user guide has been updated and greatly improved. You can download it here. For the full changelog see here.
There’s also a new vocabulary builder plugin (#9132), which sports some impressive UI design.
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
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]]>The old F-Droid package has been properly archived. If you use the F-Droid version, please switch to https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.koreader.launcher.fdroid/.
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
The post KOReader 2022.05 “Tulip” was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
]]>While this logo was originally intended for last month and the first daffodils are already starting to bloom, the snowdrops aren’t gone just yet. Unfortunately neither is the war.
A big thanks to @comphilip, whose non-touch improvements (#8859, #8877, #8892) have now made all of the most important functionality available to non-touch users.
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
The post KOReader 2022.03 “Snowdrop” was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
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