offspot
UI hardly readable on small display
From #660 UI doesn't scale down and requires ~ 460x800px. On screens with less than this available, this means that the window is not fully visible.
A vertical scroll on the window would help but a responsive UI would be better obviously.
Disagree that this is an enhancement. The tool is completely unusable on laptops as is.
Classified as enhancement because the UI will be redone soon as its been terrible and hard to maintain for years but you're right
Can I make a plea for a redesign in general?
I think the basic idea is wonderful; I really want to be able to access offline data from a raspberry pi. But you don't have a working solution.
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You don't have a local-only solution for a raspberry pi. I want to be able to browse .zlm files on a pi without it having to be a wireless access point. And there's no reason why even a pi zero can't run a browser against a local-only (no network needed) server that reads .zlm. It will be slow, but in emergency situations slow but power efficient might be much more acceptable than the high power draw of a laptop. While I like the idea of a pi as an access point with a web server, there should be an option for the pi that doesn't emit wifi at all and just lets me browse.
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Your code seems to rely on a host of shell based applications to do everything. These vary between platforms and you clearly don't test on the same versions of linux that I use (mint, pop_os). You need to stick to POSIX calls and apps.
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Why do you insist on writing a bootable image for raspberry pis? Pis already have bootable images and all you need to do is reconfigure them into wifi access points and load in a web server that reads your .zlm files. You shouldn't be in the business of reformatting disks and writing boot images. Write a script that takes an existing SD for a pi and adds to it what you need. You'll go from relying on handfuls of fragile apps to needing nothing more than fopen. Best of all, that leaves people with a pi that still runs other things if they really need that.
I think access to life-critical information in an offline fashion is a fantastic idea - and I look forward to the day when it works.
On 8/31/22 2:29 AM, rgaudin wrote:
Classified as enhancement because the UI will be redone soon as its been terrible and hard to maintain for years but you're right
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Well a whole redesign is in progress but what you seem to be looking for is kiwix-serve: a simple command-line tool that serves ZIM content over HTTP. Just download it (it's a static binary) and launch it, passing it the ZIM files you have. Up to you to do this on a running graphical session or as a service on your hotspot-serving Pi…
this project has very different constraints and users. I think you landed on the wrong repo. Feel free to suggest anything though but please, open separate tickets for those as multiple-topics tickets are harder to work with.
@scottmayo After reading this ticket, I still don’t understand what is exactly the problem. If a rendering is not OK, please upload a screenshot and clearly explain what you expect. A new ticket should be open, this ticket is mixing too many different things. Maybe many tickets need to be open.
