A Dimecres 08 Juliol 2009 08:00:34, Navneet Sankara va escriure: > Hi > > I wasn't sure if this mail belonged in the Okular Development mailing list. > So I had sent a personal mail to Pino first, which I didn't get any reply > to. I am an avid user of your software and I have a few ideas for > additional functionality that Okular could provide, which would greatly > improve its usability for me, personally, and possibly for other users too. > Here are some : > > 1. Additional functionality for annotations in PDF files : Default values > of opacity, width, font size, etc should be adjustable. Another thing I > find very annoying is that Highlighting is not possible neatly in a > 2-column file. Is it not possible to figure out that a file is in 2-column > format (some hack like looking for a vertical line of blank space, maybe?) > and adapt the Highlighting feature accordingly? > > 2. This should be simple: just a "Back" button in the navigation toolbar > (at the bottom of the window) so that it's easy to go back after you've > clicked on a link (a hyper-reference in a pdf file). > > 3. Library management : Would it be possible to have a management of files > on the personal computer from within Okular? I am a budding researcher and > I find this tool <http://www.zotero.org/> (Zotero) very useful to manage > all the papers that I have on my HD. It would be useful to have this > functionality from within Okular (much the same as Amarok manages my music, > for example). Along with the annotation tool, this would greatly improve > the usability for researchers (and for other users as well?). It would need > a way to parse citations and download the papers automatically. Another > useful feature would be a snapshot of links in files, in particular, links > within the file. For example, if you could see a snapshot of an equation, a > publication reference (just the citation at the end of the paper, say) or a > figure when a reference to the item occurs in the file. This would need a > lot of indexing and OCR, I would imagine. I think some of this is present > in a proprietary software for Mac users called > Papers<http://mekentosj.com/papers/> . > > I understand that quite a few of the ideas above may be hard to implement > and will probably take a long time to complete. But I would like to know if > any development is going on in that direction. The recent development news > in the mailing list didn't seem to indicate that. > > I am an undergrad EE student with some programming experience, but no > software development (nothing >1500 lines of code!). I would be interested > in joining the development team to help with these aspects, if possible. Is > there a large barrier to entry, in terms of size of code or lack of > experience?
Everyone is welcome to work on okular and of course in KDE, the only requirement is you sending correct patches. Albert > > Hoping for a prompt reply > Navneet Sankara _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
