[Okular-devel] Fwd: GSoC Proposal Draft

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 22 d'abril de 2013, a les 09:27:21, Jaydeep Solanki va escriure:
> 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 :-)

That's the wrong answer. Google Summer of Code is not a way for you to get 
money. Google Summer of Code is a way for Okular to be improved.

Now think about the project, not about yourself and try to answer the question 
again.

> 
> 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.

Why wouldn't it be fine?

Albert

> 
> 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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