[okular] [Bug 316890] Intelligent automatic reload

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316890

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--- Comment #13 from flindeberg at gmail.com ---
It looks like this is still around. 

I looked into KDirWatch and it seems it only has support for file changes (i.e.
the "dirty" signal), so it is impossible to know when the file is closed for
writing (lua/xe/pdflatex all seem to write multiple chunks and close the file
now and then as well). 

Wouldn't it work if okular shows a warning when the pdf-file changes, and waits
with updating the graphical layout until it has successfully loaded the new
pdf-file? I mean a warning along the lines of in big red letters "The current
file is corrupt, showing the last known good state from %time". This behavior
should only be the default for "greedy"-mode as well I think, since those of us
who would benefit from it are probably all using greedy anyhow and it could, as
previously stated, cause some confusion that the pdf shown is not the exact
version on the disk at that moment. 

I'm currently working around this with a last `cp file.pdf file-view.pdf` in my
makefiles, so a fix to this issue is, at least for me, a matter of convenience.

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