The Road to KDE 4: Okular and Ligature Document Viewers (KDE.News)

Posted Feb 15, 2007 19:22 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

why wouldn't this be possible for KDE 4.0? If Strigi and Nepomuk have
their libraries worked out, would it be very hard to use them for the
storage of annotations?

Posted Feb 16, 2007 16:11 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Thanks for your comment

"" but i'm really not sure we need another html viewer? ""

well, not just another viewer, but something like scrapbook. And for that matter integration of something like greasemonkey, but here the distinction of a viewer from an editor is blurred.

Its my ideia that we dont need another email viewer or image viewer or stream player( music, video), but okular can be the engine for viewing or previewing all, annotaded, from the hard disk and with automatic escape to their respective application. Integrated into konqueror, can make a file browser into something like never dreamed before!

"" my hope is that eventually most of these annotation type things will be
kept, or at least indexed/mirrored, in a store such as strigi... ...this will give broad access to annotations, tags, etc regardless of the application... ...it just won't be able to save them into the file (most of those file formats don't support annotations)... ""

Right, most of the file formats dont support annotations, but something like BasKet can superimpose annotations.. no ? That is, if i drop a (any) document into a basket it can be annotated. And upon "open" it can remenber the "locality" of placement of associated annotations... if it can be done transparently from the viewer, that is, embedded in the viewer like in kmail... awesome. Its the scrapbook type of functionality again, but on steroids.

"" it's had search there since kde3, right in the navigation bar ""

Integration of strigi with backend capability, great ! Its my view that Okular can be the *preferred application* for search engines like kat or beagle( why not?), the *one* that a "search" will automaticly triggers in the KDE environment.

"" i believe this is already on the roadmap ""

Import/export, or transfer like in FTP, of annotated documents can only be done i belive, if those file formats allow attachments... hmmm, but if all documents could be indexed or linked or encapsulated in a html/xml file, FTPing that file will download the document and the associated annotations file... its just a thought... but one that transferred to Win and Mac worlds, will make Kde and open source referenced everywhere often...

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