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

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns 29 Gener 2007, Brad Hards va escriure:
> Maybe I can bring him into the fold?

If you can convince him to work with us on okular that'd be great.

Albert

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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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