[Okular-devel] Advice about adding functionality to Okular

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Tuesday 24 November 2015, a les 16:37:59, Jonathan Schultz va escriure:
> Hello folks,

Hi

> Could I ask for any opinions on how best to approach adding
> functionality to Okular? In brief, what I want to do is use Okular as an
> engine for coding/tagging sections (text or rectangular) for Qualitative
> Data Analysis (QDA). What this means is that when a section of a
> document is selected, the option would be made available to code that
> section. 

What do you mean "code that section"?

Cheers,
  Albert

> The actual codes and coded sections would be dealt with through
> an abstraction layer so that eventually different back-ends could handle
> them.
> 
> Although this functionality bears some resemblance to the 'Annotations'
> currently available, it seems different enough to me to warrant being
> implemented separately.
> 
> So, what it seems to me I need to do is:
> 
> 1. Add an item to the pull-down menus to en-/dis-able the coding
> functionality.
> 
> 2. Add an item to the context menu that appears when a selection has
> been made that would summon a coding dialog. (Perhaps some shortcuts for
> commonly performed actions could be directly on the menu, that's a small
> detail).
> 
> 3. Add a new tab to the Navigation panel for visualising the coded
> sections in the document, and write the code for displaying that panel.
> 
> 4. Extend the document rendering to indicate (via shading or such-like)
> the sections that have been coded.
> 
> None of this seems so complicated to be beyond my powers of reverse
> engineering, but that might be my naivety speaking! So I thought I'd ask
> whether anyone had any advice for Okular development newcomers.
> Specifically, is there any 'correct' way to add functionality of this
> kind to Okular? And any other suggestions would be most appreciated.
> 
> Finally if anyone is interested in where I want to take this project,
> I'd be more than happy to share.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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