[Okular-devel] [Bug 261930] wish: plain text backend

[mark]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261930

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--- Comment #3 from mark <mark at ourlan.homelinux.net> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> No sorry, this has already been rejected (see #155938, c1).
> If your text editor is limited, then you should aim to have that fixed, not
> create workarounds that limitations (and fixing it will benefit for sure lot
> more people than creating a read-only viewer).

Bug 155938 - support for MS Word documents is *NOT* the same as this request.

This request is for a plain text backend, rather than for MS Word backend.

A plain text editor is not a suitable substite, if for no other reason that an
ebook formatted in plain text is often hard to read using a plain text editor
becaue of lack of suitable scrolling, zooming and page controls. There is also
often a problem with word wrap, paragraph spacings and issues with correct
display of Unicode / Western character sets.

The type of functionality desired for an Okular plain Text backed is found in
the program FBreader, which does have a plain-text capability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBReader

The ebook-viewer component of Calibre also can display plain-text ebooks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_%28software%29

When I want to read a plain-text formatted ebook on my KDE desktop, it is very
annoying that KDE lacks a suitable plain-text viewer, and that I need to open
up a non-KDE viewer application, either FBReader or ebook-viewer from Calibre,
in order to comfortably read that document (with proper scrolling, paragraph
formatting, zooming and searching functions).

This bug IMO is most definitely not resolved. It reamins a glaring omission in
Okular's capabilities.

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