KDE Review: Arianna

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Feb 26 03:11:27 GMT 2023


Carl Schwan wrote:
> I want to move Arianna to KDE review. Arianna is an ebook reader
> currently only supporting epubs. This is based on top of epub.js
> and QtWebEngine for the actualy rendering of ebooks as doing that
> from scratch in Qt would be too much work.

Okular has an EPub backend using libepub and QTextDocument. How does Arianna 
compare to that? I would expect native code to be more efficient than 
JavaScript *especially* on mobile devices, which are apparently Arianna's 
main target. But I do not know whether there are, e.g., EPub documents that 
Arianna can render and Okular cannot, so that is why I am asking how they 
compare.

        Kevin Kofler



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