[Okular-devel] Some thoughts about the xml storing in the user directory

[Lorenz Haas]

Hi,

a backup problem from a friend calls my attention to how okular will
store annotations etc. In the latest svn-code I saw, that all
informations will be stored in a folder in the home directory of the
current user like KPDF does. Hence some questions and notices
releating to that point:

- If you just backup the pdf, you lost your annotations unless you
also backup ~/.kde4/share/apps/okular/*. I guess, no normal user would
know that. Is it for pdf files possible to add an option, that the xml
file should be attached to the pdf file? Then annotations, bookmarks,
current viewpoint etc. and the original pdf where one file and easy to
backup.

- I found no possibility to clean recent opened files in the settings.

- One really large problem is, that you could see over the
bookmark-xml files in your home directory, which files you have opened
(for a very very long time). How to remove that files?

- Another problem with that xml's is: when I write documents with
LaTeX, I often generate pdfs to see how it looks, and for every pdf
there is created an xml. Well these files does not need big storage,
but it is also not nice to have so much rubbish files in our
directory. How could that be solved? Also compare location, time to
identify such a regenerated file?



If some of the described problems are already solved in okular, sorry
for mention it here, but at the moment a have troubles to use okular,
and I am nit so professional to look through the source code and find
the answers.



Thanks for your work, and I can't wait to use the annotation functions
for my pdf files!

Lorenz