[Okular-devel] Fwd: Re: [Announce] KPDF2-0.3.0 released

[Brad Hards]

Maybe I can bring him into the fold?

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Subject: Re: [Announce] KPDF2-0.3.0 released
Date: Tuesday 30 January 2007 05:18
From: Bryan Wilkerson <bryanwilkerson at yahoo.com>
To: Brad Hards <bradh at frogmouth.net>
Cc: kde-devel at kde.org

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:34 +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
> > All feedback seriously considered and appreciated.
>
> Have you got the latest PDF security fix in (the one for recursive
> references)?

No, I'll merge in the changes today.

> Was it really necessary to fork the code?

Not entirely.  I can merge it back into kdegraphics.  I can probably
even set it up so that it will build either as kpdf as a part of
kdegraphics or as a standalone kpdf2.

My understanding was that kpdf is end-of-life except bug fixes.  Isn't
the team working on a full scale replacement called Occular?   My
problem with Occular is that it requires KDE4 (not sure why) and while
I'd love to contribute by being a beta tester for KDE4 and Occular, my
primary development machine is a laptop and It took SLED10 and a lot of
tweaking to get everything on my thinkpad working properly and I don't
look forward to messing that up by installing a new desktop manager.

If my understanding is wrong and someone will commit to accepting the
changes into the main branch, I will gladly put in the extra effort to
merge the sources.  Until that time, I think users will find it easier
and more friendly if it installs as a completely separate application.
This gives the option of installing/uninstalling without effecting their
KDE installation.

> Brad

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