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 > > _______________________________________________ > Okular-devel mailing list > Okular-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
