[Okular-devel] Fwd: GSoC Proposal Draft

[Jaydeep Solanki]

Would you like to see my final proposal before I submit ?

Cheers,
Jaydeep


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Jaydeep Solanki <jaydp17 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
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>> El Dissabte, 20 d'abril de 2013, a les 18:07:20, Jaydeep Solanki va
>> escriure:
>> > I would go for webkit, because as HTML develops webkit developers will
>> > improve it where as in QTextDocument case it's not sure that it will
>> come
>> > up with the latest standards. Or if we try to improve it and maintain
>> it,
>> > the maintenance load will increase.
>> > Also I looked at other ePub viewers such as calibre and it too uses
>> webkit.
>> >
>> > I did some tests and webkit seems to be working out of the box.
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>> What do you mean with "some tests"?
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> I wrote a small test app, that renders epub using webkit, it works well,
> as expected.
> And for the QTextDocument one I edited Okular source, to see if small
> tricks like setting the 'whole html' again when any css property for body
> tag appears, worked? But it was not efficient and as such it was a
> workaround not the proper way of doing it, which would lead to adding more
> such workarounds when more bugs of such kind arise.So I finally settled on
> webkit.
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>> > BTW, I had a doubt, as currently every generator gives a QTextDocument,
>> do
>> > we have to change all of the generators to make it work with webkit, or
>> > just the specific ePub one ?
>>
>> What do you think?
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> I think it should be only the ePub generator, because if it's otherwise, I
> guess I have a lot to do this summer :-)
>
> I also wanted to ask, if it is fine if I submit my proposal as soon as the
> student application period starts? which is probably less than 24 hours
> from now.
>
> Cheers,
> Jaydeep
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
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>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Jaydeep
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>> wrote:
>> > > El Dijous, 18 d'abril de 2013, a les 23:49:00, Jaydeep Solanki va
>> escriure:
>> > > > Incase my previous mail didn't reach you because of heavy
>> attachment,
>> > >
>> > > here
>> > >
>> > > > is another one.
>> > > > Hello,
>> > > > I would be really happy if you can review the proposal that I have
>> > >
>> > > created.
>> > >
>> > > > Proposal link : http://db.tt/7pynIIKN
>> > >
>> > > Looks correct, one way of improving it would be doing some of the
>> > > preliminary
>> > > work to see if you'd prefer to go the QTextDocument or the Wekbit
>> route.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > >
>> > >   Albert
>> > >
>> > > > Thank you.
>> > > >
>> > > > Cheers,
>> > > > Jaydeep Solanki
>> > >
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