From kde-devel Sat Jun 04 19:51:08 2005 From: Stefan Kebekus Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:51:08 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Unified document viewer, lack of communication Message-Id: <200506042151.11601.stefan.kebekus () math ! uni-koeln ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=111795579030586 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0351393102==" --===============0351393102== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1331260.6uVef2VS41"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1331260.6uVef2VS41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dear Albert, Piotr, dear others who contributed to this thread, I fear that my point wasn't taken: I absolutely approve if someone like Pio= tr=20 with more time will work on a unified viewer, which is badly needed in KDE,= =20 and I don't hate Albert. Also, my point was NOT if one should take one=20 existing program or the other as a base, or if one API that is documented=20 already is better than another that will be documented soon.=20 My point IS that I want to make sure that if someone works on the issue, we= =20 will communicate in order to avoid duplicated work, where eventually=20 someone's efforts will go to trash. For instance, I have tried hard to=20 produce a very well-documented API for kviewshell (do "make apidox" in=20 kdegraphics). That was work that wasn't very fun. If Aaron or Zack would ha= ve=20 sent me a mail some weeks ago, I would have tried to contact anyone who tak= es=20 the bounty, and dicuss if I shall still do this, or if we agree on another= =20 API.=20 Practical example: right now, I wonder if I should go on implementing bookm= ark=20 support in KDVI, printing support for DJVUs, or export-to-text for DJVUs,=20 which someone asked for on this list. Text-to-speech is also trivial to=20 implement, but shall I do this when I am not sure if my code survives the=20 next few months? Now I am seriously unsure how I can keep contributing to t= he=20 project. I wanted to code DJVU-printing tomorrow. Now what shall I do? Piotr or anyone else who wants to take the bounty: Please, contact Ablert,= =20 Wilfried and me so that we know what's going on. Then let's have a look=20 together, and decide what we should do. Apart from a lack of communication,= I=20 am not worried at all and I believe that with our joint efforts we can make= a=20 great, great program.=20 Someone wrote on this list that either KDVI of KPDF has to die. I disagree.= =20 They will both live, as plugins to a unified document viewer that takes the= =20 best out of the current versions of kviewshell and kpdf. We just have to=20 agree on an API. Best, Stefan. =2D-=20 Universit=E4t zu K=F6ln Mathematisches Institut Weyertal 86-90 50931 K=F6ln / Germany Phone: +49 (0)221 470-2890 http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~kebekus --nextPart1331260.6uVef2VS41 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCogYvt1J4zVJkENwRApyvAJ93wgZsPqEX9Q8kTBXAE2LfvRsSrgCffGmt 1paE4XddwO8S/Fn9PaXXFxc= =2q44 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1331260.6uVef2VS41-- --===============0351393102== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << --===============0351393102==--