[Okular-devel] Porting okular to KDE frameworks 5

[Bogdan Cristea]

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.