[Okular-devel] GSOC 2015

Mon May 11 17:47:14 UTC 2015

Hi,

Today, I added a search bar on the layers list. The searchbar is not
searching appropriate results. I was stuck at this.

I hope I will figure it out by tomorrow.

Best,
Saheb Preet Singh

On 5/10/15, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Dissabte, 9 de maig de 2015, a les 21:48:32, saheb preet singh va
> escriure:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Previously, I had done a small proof of concept for implementing the
>> layers
>> list in the left side bar. Okular was crashing on closing the document,
>> for
>> some reasons.
>>
>> Today, I was restructuring and properly implementing the list. I was able
>> to populate the list in a list view and enable or disable the layers
>> button
>> depending on if they are present in the document. Also, I fixed the
>> crashing of the okular in my previous code on closing document.
>>
>> Here is a screen shot of the work so far:-
>>
>> http://ctrlv.in/572212
>>
>> Note:- Layers icon and some styling is still to be done.
>
> Check in oxygen/breeze icon sets, probably someone needed a layer-y icon at
> some point
>
>> Now, I have some doubts.
>>
>> Firstly, where should I show my code. Should I post it on review board as
>> a
>> diff or should I wait for the contributor account on kde and commit push
>> my
>> code at regular intervals?
>
> As said, push to your own branch in the okular repo. Ideally it'd even make
> sense to have various branches per feature, since they seem to be quite
> isolated and probably won't need much dependencies between themselves.
>
>> Secondly, I have implemented the layers view directly through subclass of
>> QAbstractItemModel ( OptionalContentModel ) provided by the backend to
>> render the view. Should I create a layers model as done in case of table
>> of
>> content model( TOCModel ) for abstraction between different backends or
>> should I assume that each backend or its generator would return me some
>> subclass of QAbstractItemModel?
>
> Assuming we'll have an QAbstractItemModel is ok, just make sure you document
> clearly the roles, etc. we expect from the model.
>
> Actually the Okular::DocumentSynopsis is a QDomDocument, it happens to be
> that
> XML was all the rage back when we wrote this in early 2000, not really the
> best of the ideas i'd say :D
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
>>
>> Best,
>> Saheb Preet Singh
>>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> > El Divendres, 8 de maig de 2015, a les 13:46:52, saheb preet singh va
>> >
>> > escriure:
>> > > Hello Everyone,
>> > >
>> > > I have just started writing my blog for my working experience with kde
>> >
>> > this
>> >
>> > > summer.
>> > >
>> > > You can find the blog at http://sahebpreet-kde.blogspot.in/
>> >
>> > Cool, you should add yourself to planetkde.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >   Albert
>> >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Saheb Preet Singh
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> > > > El Dilluns, 4 de maig de 2015, a les 16:42:33, saheb preet singh va
>> > > >
>> > > > escriure:
>> > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> > > > > > El Dijous, 30 d'abril de 2015, a les 15:11:45, saheb preet singh
>> > > > > > va
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > escriure:
>> > > > > > > Hello Everyone,
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Hi!
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Thank you for accepting my proposal in GSOC 2015.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Congrats, now let's make us both proud of the result :)
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > I am really excited to contribute in kde and okular in the
>> > > > > > > summer
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > vacation
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > this time. This is my first time participation in GSOC.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > My project is about adding tags, layers and linearization
>> >
>> > support in
>> >
>> > > > > > okular.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > My development environment is ready and I have been working on
>> >
>> > the
>> >
>> > > > > > > okular
>> > > > > > > code.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Great :)
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > I would like to know how should I proceed further and what
>> >
>> > should be
>> >
>> > > > my
>> > > >
>> > > > > > > first steps in GSOC program?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Choose one of the things and start working on it, on a branch in
>> >
>> > the
>> >
>> > > > repo
>> > > >
>> > > > > > and
>> > > > > > blog about it :)
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Should I create a new branch or use any existing?
>> > > >
>> > > > Create a new one.
>> > > >
>> > > > > I will start blogging soon.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > I think layers is probably the easiest so i'd suggest starting
>> >
>> > there.
>> >
>> > > > > I just tried to implement layers feature and was able to list the
>> >
>> > layers
>> >
>> > > > > present in document in the left side bar. Although, I did it in a
>> >
>> > very
>> >
>> > > > > adhoc way. We can discuss further on code structure and proper
>> > > > > implementation.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > We should find a time to do an IRC meeting to kickstart on this.
>> > > > > Does
>> > > >
>> > > > 18:00
>> > > >
>> > > > > > UTC work for you? Any specific day of the week?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Yes, 18:00 UTC is ok for me. Is thursday or friday  ok for you?
>> > > >
>> > > > Friday is good :)
>> > > >
>> > > > Anyone else is obviously welcome.
>> > > >
>> > > > #okular channel on irc.freenode.net
>> > > >
>> > > > Cheers,
>> > > >
>> > > >   Albert
>> > > >
>> > > > > Thanks,
>> > > > > Saheb Preet Singh
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Cheers,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > >   Albert
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Thanks,
>> > > > > > > Saheb Preet Singh
>> > > > > >
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