NickelDissolve v0.1
A Kindle-style directional page-turn animation for Kobo: the new page sweeps in as a band-wipe
across the screen instead of a single flat refresh. It works entirely through the e-ink screen's
public update interface, with no driver patching.
Added
- Page-turn animation for every way of turning a page: swipes, taps, and the physical
page-turn buttons. Backward turns sweep the other way, and a tap sweeps toward the side you
tapped. - Per-gesture control (
nds_animate_on_swipe,nds_animate_on_tap,nds_animate_on_button)
and tuning options for the number of bands (nds_strips), speed (nds_delay_us), and
direction (nds_direction), with sensible defaults tuned per device.nds_modechooses
sweep(default),observe, oroff. - Automatic colour-page handling on Kaleido colour panels: pages with colour content refresh
normally instead of animating, so colours are never distorted.
Device support
- Verified on hardware: Kobo Libra Colour (including colour-page handling) and Kobo Clara BW.
- Expected to work (not yet hardware-verified): Kobo Clara Colour, Libra 2, Clara 2E,
Elipsa 2E. - Works but off by default (the wipe is slow on the large panels): Kobo Elipsa and Sage.
Opt in withnds_mode:sweep. - Any other device: the mod stays inactive, with no animation and no risk.
Safety
- Only a black-and-white reading page-turn is ever animated; menus, the home screen, and colour
content pass through untouched. - If a sweep ever fails, the normal page refresh is shown instead. A bad frame is fixed by the
next refresh, never a brick. On an unrecognised device or firmware the mod simply stays
inactive. - Reversible: delete the
uninstallfile and reboot to remove it cleanly.
Install: copy KoboRoot.tgz to the Kobo's hidden .kobo folder, eject, and reboot. Settings are in KOBOeReader/.adds/nickel-dissolve/config; see the README.
Uninstall: delete KOBOeReader/.adds/nickel-dissolve/uninstall and reboot.