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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Okular moving
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-12-02 15:46:07
Message-ID: 200612020846.08157.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Saturday 02 December 2006 7:49, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Let me add some more emphasize to the "watermark" item.

would it make more sense to have these kinds of items in a document manager 
app? that way one could manage their ebook collection and:

 - create new books by collating/splicing/slicing existing books
 - watermark books
 - generate citations
 - tag and otherwise organize them
 - etc, etc

these seem to all go together and really not belong in a *reader*. instead 
they all really appear to be the sort of features one would expect to do when 
managing a set of documents rather than reading through them.

the manager app could work closely with the reader, but should probably be 
separate so as to:

 - keep the UI clean
 - not encumber the other 98% of people who only use a pdf reader as a reader
 - follow the tried-and-proven "UNIX way" of simple, purposeful tools

speaking with the kde pdf team (formerly the ligature and kpdf teams) it seems 
they have the appetite to create a manager app, so maybe this would naturally 
follow.

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