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Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by reeves23423 »

lulouie wrote: post #2

I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…

I am currently using https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf and its one of the amazing software i use daily.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by guide42 »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #94
michaelmrose wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding Zathura the most readily available resource can be found by running man zathura and man zathurarc. The same info is of course on the web. It does 2 page view, optionally shows progress, and with the mupdf backend supports epub and pdf and a few more. Now it doesn't support mobi but calibre can automatically create an epub from the mobi on import. Calibre is still useful in 17 different ways even if you don'…

I switched to Zathura and don't look back. I now read my PDF in my own color scheme[1] and totally love the keybindings. [1] config: https://pastebin.com/raw/NwYB0JNf

Thanks.

This is how it looks: https://i.imgur.com/7LVLJZQ.png

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by ASalazarMX »

hbbio wrote: post #36

Just looking at the source and finding out it's JavaScript. Although I'm probably living in a cave and didn't use Linux often on the desktop since years, it is common practice now to write Gtk/Gnome apps in JS? I tought Vala was the cool language for that kind of apps...

Saw that too and dismissed the project.

My PC has plenty of resources, but if I'm going to use a browser to read books, I might as well upload it to Google Play Books and use the browser I already have open for other things. It has the same functionality and my progress and bookmarks are synced across devices.

Granted, epubs are easily converted to HTML, but I shouldn't need an additional few hundreds Mb of RAM to read a 5Mb file.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by michaelmrose »

maskros wrote: post #101
michaelmrose wrote: post #79

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Mupdf is a better backend for zathura than it is a reader in its own right. It's UI is lacking most notably lacking the ability to access the index.

Make sure you use mupdf-gl rather than mupdf-x11; then press 'o' for toggling the outline/index/table of contents.

Thank you.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by squarefoot »

I wanted to give it a try, but attempting to build a Debian package fails.

$ dpkg-buildpackage

...

gpg: skipped "John Factotum ": No secret key gpg: dpkg-sign.LHxm7FS6/com.github.johnfactotum.foliate_1.4.0.dsc: clear-sign failed: No secret key

dpkg-buildpackage: error: failed to sign .dsc file

edit: build does indeed work and I could use the viewer, building a Debian package fails though.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by lottin »

jmiskovic wrote: post #110
lottin wrote: post #87

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It does look pretty and it's probably very usable on a tablet, but on a full-featured computer (i.e. one equipped with keyboard and mouse) it's inefficient and idiotic.

Your comment is overly hostile. The author is present, you could give some constructive feedback instead of insulting the design. I actually disagree with you, the UI seems elegant and very usable on desktop. Maybe smallish window size on screenshots give impression that it's more suitable for tablet?

Ok, idiotic was not the right word. I apologise.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by wjbolles »

squarefoot wrote: post #115

I wanted to give it a try, but attempting to build a Debian package fails. $ dpkg-buildpackage ... gpg: skipped "John Factotum ": No secret key gpg: dpkg-sign.LHxm7FS6/com.github.johnfactotum.foliate_1.4.0.dsc: clear-sign failed: No secret key dpkg-buildpackage: error: failed to sign .dsc file edit: build does indeed work and I could use the viewer, building a Debian package fails though.

I had the same issue and got it to work with dpkg-buildpackage --no-sign

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by lordfrikk »

JasonFruit wrote: post #69
jgillich wrote: post #31

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This is exactly what Flatpak solves. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.johnfactotum.Fol...

Yes, I finally installed it via Flatpak. What a fun adventure! First, I had to install Flatpak with apt. Then, I downloaded the Foliate .flatpakref. I installed it with `flatpack install com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.flatpakref`, which worked the first time! No, it didn't. Of course, Flatpak let me know that my user account didn't have the ability to configure the remote repositories the Foliate flatpakref specifie…

Installing it via "flatpak install foliate" didn't work? Downloading the .flatpakref seems like an unnecessary step to me but I'm on a different distro (openSUSE Tumbleweed).

edit: I can also open files from anywhere on my PC. Could it be that the flatpak on Debian Stretch is not correctly configured?

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by JasonFruit »

lordfrikk wrote: post #118
JasonFruit wrote: post #69

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Yes, I finally installed it via Flatpak. What a fun adventure! First, I had to install Flatpak with apt. Then, I downloaded the Foliate .flatpakref. I installed it with `flatpack install com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.flatpakref`, which worked the first time! No, it didn't. Of course, Flatpak let me know that my user account didn't have the ability to configure the remote repositories the Foliate flatpakref specifie…

Installing it via "flatpak install foliate" didn't work? Downloading the .flatpakref seems like an unnecessary step to me but I'm on a different distro (openSUSE Tumbleweed). edit: I can also open files from anywhere on my PC. Could it be that the flatpak on Debian Stretch is not correctly configured?

I'm pretty sure your edit nails it: flatpak on my moldy Debian doesn't work correctly as a non-root user, and the alternative of running it as root and then running the application as a normal user was neither intended nor foreseen.

I did finally install Debian testing, and it looks like the flatpak problems are resolved, but I decided not to bother installing foliate because of the nearly 700MB of dependencies it wanted over my rural satellite connection. C'est la vie.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by JasonFruit »

JasonFruit wrote: post #119
lordfrikk wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Installing it via "flatpak install foliate" didn't work? Downloading the .flatpakref seems like an unnecessary step to me but I'm on a different distro (openSUSE Tumbleweed). edit: I can also open files from anywhere on my PC. Could it be that the flatpak on Debian Stretch is not correctly configured?

I'm pretty sure your edit nails it: flatpak on my moldy Debian doesn't work correctly as a non-root user, and the alternative of running it as root and then running the application as a normal user was neither intended nor foreseen. I did finally install Debian testing, and it looks like the flatpak problems are resolved, but I decided not to bother installing foliate because of the nearly 700MB of dependencies it wa…

I went ahead and burned the data: for Science! After the dependencies were all downloaded, it works correctly and completely. It's a fairly nice ebook reader application, and it only took three days and replacing my operating system to get it.
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