[Okular-devel] merging the mart/okularActive branch into master

[Bogdan Cristea]

On Saturday 29 September 2012 15:53:57 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Divendres, 28 de setembre de 2012, a les 22:04:32, Aaron J. Seigo va
> 
> escriure:
> > Hi...
> 
> Hi
> 
> > I would like to merge the mart/okularActive branch into okular master so
> > that we can more easily take advantage of improvements in the master
> > branch as well as make the touch based application more readily
> > accessible to people.
> 
> I thought that it was agreed back when Marco announced the code that this
> would end up in a different repo.
> 
> Any reason why you no longer agree with that?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > right now in the branch, all the added code is in a subdirectory called
> > "active". this may not be optimal, as there is already a directory
> > called
> > "ui", which is obviously for the desktop client. it may make sense to
> > having something like ui/desktop and ui/touch directories, but then
> > there is also the shell/ directory which contains the desktop
> > application which uses the contents of ui/. so i'm not sure what the
> > most "natural" arrangement would be in the eyes of the okular team.
> > 
> > the code in the active/ subdirectory produces two things:
> > 
> > 1) a QML component for okular
> > 2) a full touch based application in the style of Plasma Active,
> > assuming
> > that the necessary dependencies are installed.
> > 
> > i think it may also make sense to add a switch to the top level cmake,
> > off by default assuming most people are still building for the desktop,
> > which enables the build of the application in point 2 above. i think
> > there is value in always building the QML component, however, as that
> > lets applications even on the desktop which may use QML for these
> > purposes easily access okular for document rendering.
> > 
> > i'm willing to do the work implied by the above, if you can let me know:
> > 
> > * if a merge into master OK to you
> > * the "best" directory structure in your opinion
> > 
> > i'm not on the okular-devel list, so please CC me in replies. thanks.
> 
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Hi

There is a request for better separation of okular backend and frontend 
(currently under review and hopefully soon integrated into okular). You could 
consider using okular core library instead for okular active.

regards
-- 
Bogdan