[Okular-devel] Txt backend for okular, for plain text files.

[Azat Khuzhin]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Dilluns, 11 de febrer de 2013, a les 11:14:33, Azat Khuzhin va escriure:
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> > El Diumenge, 10 de febrer de 2013, a les 21:34:35, Azat Khuzhin va
> escriure:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> >> I write simple plain text backend for okular.
>> >> https://github.com/azat/okular/tree/add-txt-support
>> >
>> > To be honest i don't see what benefit a plain text backend for okular has,
>> > but I'm not going to try to stop you :-)
>>
>> I use okular to read books, and I have one book in plaintext format,
>> but kate doesn't the best choice to read books, so I start
>> implementing this backend.
>
> Makes sense, do you have a screenshot we can see how it is looking like?

http://i.imgur.com/gX0DEJJ.png
Is this enough?

>
> One of the things i think you'll need to implement is a font selector, no? So
> you can change font size, etc. That's one of the things we've been needing for
> lots of other "text based" formats, so it'd be cool to get globally :-)

Good idea.
I will do this in the next week. More likely after some
refactoring/improvements of new plain text backend.

>
>>
>> >> I will support this backend until bringing it to a normal state.
>> >> It means I will resolv many TODO's in this code, that I left, and do
>> >> some refactoring.
>> >>
>> >> And after some fixes, from time to time, to this backed will write
>> >> email to this mail list that new version is available.
>> >>
>> >> It will be great if this backend can be merged to upstream, for
>> >> everybody.
>> >> So if anybody can tell what must be fixed before merging to upstream,
>> >> I will do it as soon as I can.
>> >>
>> >> Patch available here
>> >> https://github.com/azat/okular/compare/master...add-txt-support.patch
>> >>
>> >> Graphic view available here
>> >> https://github.com/azat/okular/compare/master...add-txt-support
>> >
>> > Any reason this is happening in github instead of in git.kde.org? You'll
>> > probably get more help/visibility if in git.kde.org than in github
>>
>> I use github for open source development.
>> It doesn't take much to push to git.kde.org too.
>>ceil
>> I'v registered at identity.kde.org and now I have git.kde.org account.
>> But I don't know how can I create repository there.
>> Could you help me with this?
>
> Sadly you can't, you need a "contributor account" and for that there is a
> requirement you have contributed some patches before getting the account, so i
> guess for now you'll still need to be in github, sorry for the incorrect
> information :-/

Don't worry, I will use github.
I will push to new repository when I will get "contributor account".

>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >   Albert
>> >>
>> >> P.S. I will gladly except you help with development.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Azat Khuzhin
>> >> Primary email: a3at.mail at gmail.com
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