[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 326479] smart facing mode

[Matthieu Lagouge]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326479

--- Comment #2 from Matthieu Lagouge <matian1978 at gmail.com> ---
Thanks for your reply!

The truth is if I really had the answer, I would probably try to do at least a
crappy demo. But I'm a humble user, so I can only propose features that I
believe others could enjoy as much as me and I'm not really capable of
producing any decent code.

So I can only speculate on a feasable method:
Parse the current and previous page(s) text to find the links, build the
"smart" frame content by copy-pasting the referenced content in a new page
(would be a first step for the figures).

I'm not naive enough to believe okular will guess the meaning of a text, so I
assume the existence of internal links in the document poiting to the material
of interest.

As the "main" page is scrolled, the "smart" frame will remove older figures to
replace them with the new ones, transition being triggered by new internal
links appearing on the page.

Content other than figures could be managed in further evolution of the
feature: bibliography references, maybe small preview of external webpages?

Bottom line is I'm no developer and I'm not an expert in okular's code, so I
don't know if this is doable or not, and if yes, how much work it would
require.

Please take it as what it is: a wishlist item

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