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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This looks like an awesome project! I have a Kobo Clara HD which I would love to run an open OS on. My priorities would be:

  • Being great for reading books, including having a dark mode
  • Supporting adjustment of colour temperature of the backlight
  • Being able to run syncthing on it. If I could have all the above (and also install CherryTree notes) I would probably throw away my phone!
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We have koreader which has dark mode

Both our software and koreader support it ( maybe an update would be needed, idk - easy to add )

Syncthing is a user app already

We have feathernotes which is simmilar to cherry notes - only usb keyboard tho

There is an experimental image for the clara hd but eink performance is not great. Maybe you could help with testing? Idk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sounds really good - well done!

In what way is eink performance not great for the Clara HD?

Sure, I could help testing it. Do you have a download available?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

because it's mainline kernel something is broken across kernel -> driver -> fbink -> qt platform plugin and it's slow to draw things on screen. We are looking for solutions and have a few ideas already

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4387514#post4387514

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