Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions [LWN.net]

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 1, 2009 22:35 UTC (Mon) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)
In reply to: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions by johnflux
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Is it really "simply" or is it "through a series of arcane steps" ? I'd imagine the best bet would be a checkbox-menuitem in the Edit menu, two clicks away at most and in a fairly obvious place.

(not saying it isn't simple in Okular as I haven't used it)

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Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 2, 2009 7:31 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

Yeah, why don't Debian just provide a conf file with the option checked out?

In ~/.kde/share/config/okularpartrc: ObeyDRM=false

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 2, 2009 14:00 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

*sigh* does nobody read the article anymore?

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 2, 2009 15:01 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

I think the article can be read in two ways: I read it first as please Okular guys remove that feature from the code, and the second time (after reading your comment) realised that it could (should?) be read as please Okular/KDE/Debian guys set the default option to not enforce the restriction, which they don't want to do.

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 4, 2009 1:00 UTC (Thu) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486) [Link]

Did some people come over from Slashdot? It is common there to comment without reading TFA...

Useless denigrating comments

Posted Jun 4, 2009 7:09 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

Really? I didn't know: never been on /.
Thanks for sharing this invaluable experience, your comment was most useful.

Also, I do hope the 'F' in TFA meant 'featured', because over here at LWN people usually tend to be polite to each other.

But I do realise that, although this did not use to be too much the case on LWN, people like to tell others off and punish them, rather than trying to understand them. I can see that on the road to work every day.