[Okular-devel] Okular annotations and Nepomuk

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Saturday 23 May 2009 16:07:36 Pino Toscano wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> > I recently discovered that Okular can create annotations which are then
> > stored in an XML file. I immediately thought: "Why not store them in
> > Nepomuk?".
>
> Just a bit of background note: the internal XML are not just "annotation
> storage", but contain any local (meta)data associated with a document.
> These include last 10 history steps, last zoom level, locally created
> annotations, changed values of form fields (if any).
>
> > So here is the question: what are your thoughts on this? IMHO Nepomuk is
> > perfect since it is intended for annotations and it would allow you to
> > even link pdfs (and the like) to other documents and persons and so on.
> >
> > I could see Okular storing the annotations both in Nepomuk and the XML
> > file for now so we can test it a bit.
>
> I'm not opposing to the idea, but I'm not conviced either that would be a
> good solution. Some (most?) people expect to be able to save and share the
> annotations with friend/boss/collegue/fiance(e)/etc. We provide a share
> mode for them (even if Okular-specific, but there isn't a better solution
> so far).

actually after looking into it a bit more I am not that sure anymore myself. 
However, I think it would be a good idea to at least mirror them in Nepomuk or 
provide a strigi extractor maybe. Otherwise the desktop search will not pick 
them up which might confuse users.

Cheers,
Sebastian