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

[mark]

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

--- Comment #6 from mark <mark at ourlan.homelinux.net> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > to be honest i don't see what okular can give you above a regular text
> > document viewer (kate, kwrite). Yes, the duplication is kind of weird, since
> > it asks for a different thing, but anyhow, since none of the okular
> > developers see a need for this, don't expect this happening anytime soon
> > unless you can explain what's the point.
> 
> OK, here is a free example of a plain-text book from smashwords:
> http://www.smashwords.com/books/download/152391/6/latest/1/0/squatters-
> rights.txt
> 
> If you open this link in Firefox or Konqueror directly, you can't read the
> text, becaue there is no word wrap. If you open it in Rekonq, it is much
> closer to what we want in a plain-text viewer.
> 
> OK, from reKonq, now save the file on the local filesystem. Open it as a
> plain-text local file from Konqueror. This gets close to waht we need to
> read this plain-text ebbok. It pages OK using the spacebar, Ctrl+ and Ctrl-
> can be used to zoom the text ... Konqueror makes a fair enogh reader/viewer
> for this plain-text file.

Sorry ... I meant to say in the bove that Rekonq was a reasonable plain-text
ebook reader on KDE, not Konqueror.

My main point is that okular is my preferred program for reading ebooks, and
unfrotunately at this time I can't use okular for plain-text ebooks. It really
irks me, and I see this as a critical failing of okular as an ebook reader.
Other ebook reader programs do not suffer from this lack.

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