[Okular-devel] Advice about adding functionality to Okular

[Jonathan Schultz]

Hi Albert,

> What do you mean "code that section"?

Sorry - I should have explained what Qualitative Data Analysis refers to 
by 'code'. What it means is to 'tag' a document section by associating 
with a 'code' that is in turn linked to an externally maintained 
database of codes with their own properties. The goal is to allow the 
data analyst to perform complex queries on libraries of documents that 
return the matching sections from those documents.

Cheers,
Jonathan

>
> 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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