Tim's brilliant hack for #WikiReader

[Ganesh Krishna]

Brilliant! I love it. Thank you.
-GK

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at ludism.org> wrote:

> The email below was rejected because the attachment was too large.
> Please read on, and find the patched kernel here:
>
> http://www.ludism.org/~rwhe/kernel.elf.borders<http://www.ludism.org/%7Erwhe/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)
> >
>
>
>
> --
> 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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