Kindle for Windows has recently been released. It allows you to read Kindle books on a PC. Kindles run on Linux. Kindle for Windows runs perfectly in Linux under Wine (at least under the latest Ubuntu). There are things it would be nice to change about how the Kindle environment works in Linux under Wine; for example, book pages are displayed with a white page color. I would prefer a light blue page color. Is hacking the Kindle for Windows environment feasible under Wine? How would one learn to do that, if so?
It would be the same, as it's a Windows application. You could use something like Resource Hacker to delve into and modify Windows applications' interfaces.
James Mckenzie
2009-Nov-16 21:23 UTC
[Wine] Hacking Kindle for Windows in Linux under Wine?
geneven wrote:> >Kindle for Windows has recently been released. It allows you to read Kindle books on a PC. > >Kindles run on Linux. > >Kindle for Windows runs perfectly in Linux under Wine (at least under the latest Ubuntu). > >There are things it would be nice to change about how the Kindle environment works in Linux under Wine; for example, book pages are displayed with a white page color. I would prefer a light blue page color. >Can you run the program from the command line and see if it reports fixme:richedit errors. There is a particular riched call that sets the background color and this is/was not implemented which means that the background color cannot be set (yet.) James McKenzie