[Okular-devel] trying to add my own functionality into Okular

[Bogdan Cristea]

On Thursday 07 February 2013 23:44:14 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > I work for a research center and we would like to test some of our
> > research
> > on open source viewers. Okular is my first choice. The things I'll need to
> > do include changing some UI, getting content of documents from backend,
> > applying our algorithm and get some output, etc.  As this is my first
> > experience of developing with open source software and I'm now having some
> > trouble with understanding the source code. Is there any kind of
> > developer's manual or other similar documents so that I could understand
> > the source code quickly? Or do you have any suggestions how I should get
> > started? Thanks a lot!

I have made a reader using okular backend
https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/edu/ebookreader
Have a look at okulardocument.cpp in order to understand how okular backend is 
used.

There is also okular active which uses qml plugins (currently included into 
okular)

-- 
Bogdan