Desktop App KoboPatchFan - a GUI application for Kobo patches

Hello everybody!

I would like to introduce KoboPatchFan, a GUI application for Kobo patches written in PyQt6 for Windows and Linux.

With KoboPatchFan, you can download, configure and generate Kobo patch files fully automatically. The aim is to significantly reduce the hurdle of patching a Kobo: No more complicated selecting and downloading and unpacking of the right files, no more manually editing the files in a texteditor, no more manually executing a .bat or .sh file. KoboPatchFan can do of all these steps for you.
I wrote the tool because I noticed that the relatively complicated process kept me from patching. Now I want to share it with you.

I took advantage of the brilliant infrastructure of the Kobopatch system. I have briefly described what the tool does on the Github page, where you can also find the source code. The usage of KoboPatchFan is (hopefully) self-explanatory, but here is a short introduction with screenshots:

In the tab (1) Download, after selecting your Kobo and the firmware, the tool will automatically check if there is a patch for the selected firmware available. If so, the required files can be downloaded automatically by clicking Start. There is an important option to update the underlying "database" files (the first time you start, you will be greeted with a red message indicating that an update is required). This way KoboPatchFan will always be up to date (hopefully).

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In the tab (2) Configuration you select the options that you want to patch. Simply select or deselect the checkboxes. There is also a search mask for filtering.
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And there is an Open Edit Mode for directly editing the corresponding patch code of the respective option:
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At the end, switch to the tab (3) Generation. Click on Run to generate a RootKobo.tgz file. Connect your Kobo, copy the RootKobo.tgz file into the .kobo folder of your Kobo using the Export-File button - and you're done!
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In the Settings tab, you can change the working directory (by default, this is the user's home directory, in which a folder "KoboPatchFan" with all the files is created). You can also see the log report there if an error occurs or if you want to have a manual download link.
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