[Okular-devel] [Bug 151614] store annotations with documents

[Brad Hards]

On Saturday 09 August 2008 11:25:54 am David Short wrote:
> I feel that some developers here are getting a little defensive because a
> huge amount of work would be necessary to implement all of this, and they
> don't want to do it.  I'd say that they need to separate the concepts of
> what they are willing to do, and what ought to be done.
David: this comes across as a dictatorial. If you are contributing (code, 
documentation or graphics), then your opinion might be less obnoxious, but I 
haven't yet seen that contribution yet.

> It is clear that the annotation feature in Okular is broken.  It does not
> do what any user would expect it to do.  This obviously needs to be fixed.
This is not obvious. In fact, there are almost certainly some users who make 
reasonable use of this. Not everyone wants to share their annotations, or 
have them embedded in the parent document.

>  The huge amount of work involved in finding an alternative to poppler (for
> example), does not change that fact.
It doesn't follow from what you are arguing either.

If you don't want to use annotations, then don't. If you want to embed 
annotations in PDF documents, then finish off the poppler functionality and 
provide the patch for Okular to use it. 

If you can't do those things, then recognise that the developers think that 
embedding annotations in documents (where possible) is a good thing too - see 
Pino's comment #1.   However that doesn't make it an fun thing to work on, 
and I don't think anyone is getting paid to develop poppler or Okular. So 
where is the motivation - certainly not in being told that "they need to 
separate the concepts of what they are willing to do, and what ought to be 
done".

Please apologise for your remarks.

Brad