Okular moving

[Uwe Thiem]

On 02 December 2006 17:46, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 7:49, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > Let me add some more emphasize to the "watermark" item.
>
> would it make more sense to have these kinds of items in a document manager
> app? that way one could manage their ebook collection and:
>
>  - create new books by collating/splicing/slicing existing books
>  - watermark books
>  - generate citations
>  - tag and otherwise organize them
>  - etc, etc
>
> these seem to all go together and really not belong in a *reader*. instead
> they all really appear to be the sort of features one would expect to do
> when managing a set of documents rather than reading through them.
>
> the manager app could work closely with the reader, but should probably be
> separate so as to:
>
>  - keep the UI clean
>  - not encumber the other 98% of people who only use a pdf reader as a
> reader - follow the tried-and-proven "UNIX way" of simple, purposeful tools
>
> speaking with the kde pdf team (formerly the ligature and kpdf teams) it
> seems they have the appetite to create a manager app, so maybe this would
> naturally follow.

This sounds very interesting!

Uwe

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