[Okular-devel] GSoC 2012 Ideas page: time to add those ideas!

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Divendres, 2 de març de 2012, a les 13:07:57, todd rme va escriure:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Teo Mrnjavac <teo at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > This is a friendly reminder that the GSoC mentoring organization
> > application period closes in a week. I see that many of you have added
> > lots of interesting ideas but there are still empty spots in that wiki
> > page so I'm confident that we can do even better!
> > 
> > If any of you still have ideas for this year's GSoC please add them to
> > the wiki page [1] as soon as possible and before March 9.
> > 
> > [1] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Teo
> 
> won't be able to mentor any gsoc projects but I have some ideas (that
> may or may not be any good) if someone else wants to mentor them:
> 
> 1. Embedded PDF annotation support.  poppler now supports embedded
> annotations, so providing support for this in okular (alongside okular
> annotations) would be very helpful for interoperability.  It could be
> in the form of a generic annotation writer class, with backends that
> support annotation writing having their own implementation hooking
> into this class.

There is someone working on this.

> 
> 2. Seamlessly transfer current document to plasma active.  You should
> just be able to click a button and have the file, your current
> location and view, bookmarks, annotations, etc transfer from your
> computer to your active device, or back.  You should be able to stop
> reading on your computer and pick it up on your active device exactly
> where you left off.

Nothing to do with Okular.

> 
> 3. Page transition effects during normal viewing.  Especially for
> plasma active, having smooth page transition effects would make the
> experience more smooth and book-like.  For example an effect that
> looks like a sheet of paper turning.  Pretty much every ebook reader I
> have seen on android has this sort of effect, often tied to the touch
> screen so the shape of the turning page depends in a realistic way on
> where you grab it.

Not possible. You can't do paper turning or any kind of effect in continuous 
view.

Albert

> 
> -Todd
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