[Okular-devel] [Bug 176743] okular review affects different document with same name

[doc.evans at gmail.com]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176743





--- Comment #5 from doc evans gmail com  2008-12-08 22:21:48 ---
It sounds like the "okular archive" might solve one problem (the one I have at
the moment: that I want multiple identical files, with identical names, to be
associated with different reviews), but as you suggest it sounds like it will
have its own problems regarding what happens when one moves the underlying
files.

I don't think it's correct to call the current situation a "bug but also a
feature". I think it's more like "the current implementation of a particular
feature gives rise to a bug". 

I'm not saying that the feature that's implemented is unimportant -- not at
all; I think it's pretty vital to okular being useful. However, the limitation
imposed by the current implementation -- of not being able to associate
different reviews with multiple identical files with identical names -- is a
terrible restriction (especially since there's no warning anywhere about it). I
can't see businesses being able to use okular with that restriction.

Somehow, okular needs a way to distinguish /directory1/file.pdf from the
identical /directory2/file.pdf so that different reviews  can be associated
with them. Maybe there's no automatic way this can be done (I can see that it's
a difficult problem, but it's not obvious to me that there's no automatic
solution), but at the very least a manual system could be used so that the user
is asked whether the two files are supposed to share highlighting. I'm kind of
thinking aloud here, for which Aaron chastised me recently, so I'll stop doing
that.

But at the end of the day I think there's definitely a problem here that needs
to be addressed somehow. From a developer's perspective it may look like a
"wish" rather than a "bug", although to me as a user it definitely has the
appearance of a bug.

Maybe the idea of an okular archive solves all, or at least the worst,
problems. I guess I'll find out and revisit the issue when 4.2 is released for
Kubuntu.

Incidentally, mostly okular is simply fabulous.


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