[Okular-devel] Porting okular to KDE frameworks 5

[Bogdan Cristea]

On 11/09/2013 12:21 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Diumenge, 20 d'octubre de 2013, a les 22:35:42, Albert Astals Cid va
> escriure:
>> El Dissabte, 19 d'octubre de 2013, a les 20:53:32, Bogdan Cristea va
> escriure:
>>> On Sat 19 Oct 2013 07:04:25 PM CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>>> El Dissabte, 19 d'octubre de 2013, a les 15:15:37, Luigi Toscano va
>> escriure:
>>>>> Bogdan Cristea wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the status of porting okular to KF5 ? Given the current status
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> KF5 is this possible ?
>>>>> We are talking about a still unstable set of libraries (KF5) over a
>>>>> still
>>>>> unstable set of libraries (Qt 5.2). If you check the expected
>>>>> timelines,
>>>>> KDE Applications will still have new releases for the 4.x series (4.12
>>>>> will arrive soon, 4.13 is expected too, I wouldn't be surprised by
>>>>> 4.14). Sure, experimental versions can be tried too, but as usual it's
>>>>> a
>>>>> matter of manpower (which is lacking). Albert can say something more,
>>>>> as
>>>>> I'm not a "core" developer, but *I* think that *right now* is better to
>>>>> have a more complete and stable version for 4.x than to spend time
>>>>> porting on two layers of instability.
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> Your time is better invested either in:
>>>>    A) Improving Okular as we shit it now
>>>>    B) Improving KF5 itself.
>>> I am interested in porting okular core library to embedded platforms
>>> (e.g. Android). I would like to experiment with okular and KF5 since
>>> KF5 uses now a modular structure, much more suitable I believe  for
>>> stand alone KDE applications.
>> So if you have an interest, what's stopping you doing it? :-)
> So did you start to work on this?
>

No, not yet, I need to find some time, but this won't happen before 
Christmas. I'll let you know once I have something functional.