A few tips tested on the mini, (probably works on other kobos) that I have not seen reported yet?
Also a lot of new possibilities for others to test further,
and please report back to this forum
Apart from the options already enter in the kobo eReader.conf file, according to the string found in libnickel library, a few more is possible to activate options in nickel not accessible from gui.
Under the section of:
[FeatureSettings]
AllowDevConsole=true
Activates a new button at the end of the settings list. This button opens a page with 3 buttons, fonts test, Activites (empty, probably a log) and save (Report if your find out what it does
).
GestureKeyboard=true
When dragging your finger across the keyboard, a line is drawn. Probably like a swepe keyboard found on mobile phones, but without a T9-lookup this seems pointless. Report if your find out what it can be used for
OnlineWikipedia=true
Wikipedia in kobobooks GREAT! When longpressing a word in a kobobook, using the dictionary menu, a new items give access to online lookup in Wikipedia. Needs wifi.
The whole reason I started to look in the binary libnickel was to find how to activate the libwikipedia.so library found in /usr/local/kobo/. - Now I just need to find a way to activate libcrossword
There is some strange things with the fonts in the Wikipedia dialog, when you do the second lookup, the fonts changes.
PhraseTranslation=true
Like the Wikipedia, highlight a whole sentence in a kobobook, then use the dictionary menu to translate the whole sentence to another language. Uses online translation, so it needs wifi.
TelnetConsole=
Unknown, does NOT enable a telnet login over wifi, somebody try if this work over usb
BookSpecificStats=true
Enables more stats when pressing the % read in the lower left corner.
FullBookPageNumbers=
Might be pagenumber for full book rather than for each chapter?
The rest of the options is not tested, please try them out, and report back if you find out what they are for.
Also please notice that Im not exactly sure that they are listed under the correct section. (between brackets[]) So test them in other sections, if they do not seem to work in the ones listed below.
[Services]
AbTestURL
DictionaryUrl
PeriodicSyncEnabled
[LibraryTabSettings]
lastRecommendationPaletteWidth
lastRecommendationViewIndex
[ReadingLife]
MarketingMessages
[TasteQuizSettings]
lastTasteQuizRatedCount
lastTasteQuizInterestedCount
lastTasteQuizNotInterestedCount
lastTasteQuizItemsRated
lastTasteQuizItemsShown
tasteQuizEnabled
[FeatureSettings]
TasteProfile
SelectiveSync
ReadingTimePerDay
FullScreenBrowser
TestSync
Thesaurus
[ApplicationPreferences]
ClockDisplayDuration
ExtraLocales
SyncAnimationSpeed
NumMaxToasts
SyncShelves
ShowBrightnessToast
QuickTourShown
Debugging=true
WARNING this turns off sleep timeout, and burns battery.
PromotionsAvailable
[Browser]
SwipeDialogShown=true
Might have something to do with the Wikipedia dialog, its possible to swipe the dialog pages without using the small page arrows on the button
[ReadingLife]
readingAdobeShowPageNumbers
libraryShowCovers
readingBGColor
readingTextColor
readingTheme
Listed below are some strings listed after readingTheme, might be different themes
Kepub-book-theme-
Sepia
Night
Hey
maybe Night is a reversed display like the night mode hack. Or the readingBGColor and readingTextColor above can be used for the same effect.
Happy hacking all
kobo sure has a lot of easter eggs in this little gem of a ebook