Light theme

[schwartzaher]

I was trying to use the app on my Onyx Boox Poke 4 Lite. Love how the reader portion of the app looks. Navigation throughout reading a book looks and functions very amazing. It is the first app and server that I found that can replace the built in book reader on my e-reader. The only problem I have is the dark mode. When you navigate the main page of the bookshelf, the screen becomes very dark and is very hard to navigate and see. Having a light mode would make that so much easier to navigate and make the app worth it. I was using it for a week to see if I could work around it, having to stop just because of not being able to navigate my books in the bookshelf mode. Adding a light mode would make this look and work a lot nicer on any device that uses an e-ink screen. Using the app and dark mode on my tablet looks fine as it is an IPS LCD display that looks just fine with dark mode.

[advplyr]

Can you share a picture of what this looks like for you on that device?

[schwartzaher]

[schwartzaher]

This is with a manual screen refresh to give it the best possible look. With dark mode it seems to kill the bookshelf but book itself looks good.

[KaiStarkk]

Same on the Boox Air 3 C with colour epaper. Seems like dark apps cause more refreshes

The other things that would be amazing for e-readers:

• option to hide the player bar at bottom of screen but keep playing (the MM:SS updates
• Tap left/right to turn page and disable swipes (can conflict with ereader gestures)
• Instant page change option instead of turn animation
• Continuous vertical scroll option (again disabling side swipes)
• separate download button for ebook only
• Ability to change columns, margins, and font (Caecilia condensed is popular, although I already like ABS default)

@advplyr I thought I recall there used to be a tap option? - apologies if I’m missing it

[advplyr]

Next release will include the first pass at light theme. I'm still going through and finding things I missed but it will be setup so that we can change the colors easily.

The track bar is still using the dark theme, need to update that.

[benonymity]

This looks awesome, love the color selection!

[advplyr]

Added in 0.9.69-beta

[advplyr]

If you test this out on your ereader please share a screenshot of what it looks like now

[schwartzaher]

So it looks good. Haven't used it since I posted this issue. It looks resolved, not being able to use bookshelf view which is to be expected. I still need to customize the font and other things. Otherwise it looks good.

[schwartzaher]

So it looks good. Haven't used it since I posted this issue. It looks resolved, not being able to use bookshelf view which is to be expected. I still need to customize the font and other things. Otherwise it looks good.

At this point it looks good. I'm not sure how easy it is to program a toggle that asks if you want to switch off of bookshelf mode when you turn on light mode. Otherwise thank you for fixing things

[advplyr]

Awesome thanks for the photos