[Okular-devel] Wishlist: Ideas for Okular development - by a wannabe developer

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres 08 Juliol 2009 08:00:34, Navneet Sankara va escriure:
> Hi
>
> I wasn't sure if this mail belonged in the Okular Development mailing list.
> So I had sent a personal mail to Pino first, which I didn't get any reply
> to. I am an avid user of your software and I have a few ideas for
> additional functionality that Okular could provide, which would greatly
> improve its usability for me, personally, and possibly for other users too.
> Here are some :
>
> 1. Additional functionality for annotations in PDF files : Default values
> of opacity, width, font size, etc should be adjustable. Another thing I
> find very annoying is that Highlighting is not possible neatly in a
> 2-column file. Is it not possible to figure out that a file is in 2-column
> format (some hack like looking for a vertical line of blank space, maybe?)
> and adapt the Highlighting feature accordingly?
>
> 2. This should be simple: just a "Back" button in the navigation toolbar
> (at the bottom of the window) so that it's easy to go back after you've
> clicked on a link (a hyper-reference in a pdf file).
>
> 3. Library management : Would it be possible to have a management of files
> on the personal computer from within Okular? I am a budding researcher and
> I find this tool <http://www.zotero.org/> (Zotero) very useful to manage
> all the papers that I have on my HD. It would be useful to have this
> functionality from within Okular (much the same as Amarok manages my music,
> for example). Along with the annotation tool, this would greatly improve
> the usability for researchers (and for other users as well?). It would need
> a way to parse citations and download the papers automatically. Another
> useful feature would be a snapshot of links in files, in particular, links
> within the file. For example, if you could see a snapshot of an equation, a
> publication reference (just the citation at the end of the paper, say) or a
> figure when a reference to the item occurs in the file. This would need a
> lot of indexing and OCR, I would imagine. I think some of this is present
> in a proprietary software for Mac users called
> Papers<http://mekentosj.com/papers/> .
>
> I understand that quite a few of the ideas above may be hard to implement
> and will probably take a long time to complete. But I would like to know if
> any development is going on in that direction. The recent development news
> in the mailing list didn't seem to indicate that.
>
> I am an undergrad EE student with some programming experience, but no
> software development (nothing >1500 lines of code!). I would be interested
> in joining the development team to help with these aspects, if possible. Is
> there a large barrier to entry, in terms of size of code or lack of
> experience?

Everyone is welcome to work on okular and of course in KDE, the only 
requirement is you sending correct patches.

Albert

>
> Hoping for a prompt reply
> Navneet Sankara