Tim's brilliant hack for #WikiReader

[Ron Hale-Evans]

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Please read on, and find the patched kernel here:

http://www.ludism.org/~rwhe/kernel.elf.borders

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at ludism.org> wrote:
> Well, I bit the bullet and installed a WikiReader build environment
> and compiled the latest kernel. Then I applied Tim's patch and
> recompiled and installed the kernel.
>
> It's brilliant! I'm attaching it to this message. Just rename it to
> kernel.elf, save it to your SD card, and pop it back in. Enjoy! (Back
> up your old kernel first.)
>
> Thanks, Tim!
>
> As a bonus, the latest build also seems to improve touch screen
> responsiveness for hyperlinks.
>
> Ron Hale-Evans
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at ludism.org> wrote:
>> Tim,
>>
>> This sounds awesome! I hope it becomes standard.
>>
>> Could you please attach a complete kernel for those of us who are too
>> lazy to set up a toolchain right now? :)
>>
>> Happy holidays and thanks,
>>
>> Ron H-E
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Tim Besard <tim.besard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Seems like patch didn't get through, reposting bzipped.
>>>
>>> -Tim
>>>
>>> Op woensdag 16-12-2009 om 22:28 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Tim
>>> Besard:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Attached to this mail is a small patch I wrote a while ago, introducing
>>>> border interactions. It quite simply hacks in a 15px magical border
>>>> which when tapped induces certain actions:
>>>>   * upper border: page up;
>>>>   * lower border: page down;
>>>>   * left border: history back;
>>>>   * right border: history forward.
>>>>
>>>> I've added page up & down because it reads far faster and scrolling
>>>> (at least on my wikireader) turned out to be quite unreadable. History
>>>> back and forward are handy shortcuts while clicking through links of an
>>>> article.
>>>>
>>>> -Tim
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe at ludism.org ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ... (206) 201-1768
>>    Mind Performance Hacks book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
>>  The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
>> Wake 107:08)
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe at ludism.org ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ... (206) 201-1768
>    Mind Performance Hacks book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
>  The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
> Wake 107:08)
>



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Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe at ludism.org ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ... (206) 201-1768
    Mind Performance Hacks book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
 The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
Wake 107:08)