[Okular-devel] Fwd: GSoC Proposal Draft

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 22 d'abril de 2013, a les 09:49:46, Jaydeep Solanki va escriure:
> Would you like to see my final proposal before I submit ?

We can see it in the website, but if you want to send it again, it's ok.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Jaydeep
> 
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Jaydeep Solanki <jaydp17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> What do you mean with "some tests"?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> >> > 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?
> > 
> > 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
> >>   
> >> > 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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