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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unified document viewer, lack of communication
From:       Stefan Kebekus <stefan.kebekus () math ! uni-koeln ! de>
Date:       2005-06-04 19:51:08
Message-ID: 200506042151.11601.stefan.kebekus () math ! uni-koeln ! de
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Dear Albert, Piotr, dear others who contributed to this thread,

I fear that my point wasn't taken: I absolutely approve if someone like Piotr 
with more time will work on a unified viewer, which is badly needed in KDE, 
and I don't hate Albert. Also, my point was NOT if one should take one 
existing program or the other as a base, or if one API that is documented 
already is better than another that will be documented soon. 

My point IS that I want to make sure that if someone works on the issue, we 
will communicate in order to avoid duplicated work, where eventually 
someone's efforts will go to trash. For instance, I have tried hard to 
produce a very well-documented API for kviewshell (do "make apidox" in 
kdegraphics). That was work that wasn't very fun. If Aaron or Zack would have 
sent me a mail some weeks ago, I would have tried to contact anyone who takes 
the bounty, and dicuss if I shall still do this, or if we agree on another 
API. 

Practical example: right now, I wonder if I should go on implementing bookmark 
support in KDVI, printing support for DJVUs, or export-to-text for DJVUs, 
which someone asked for on this list. Text-to-speech is also trivial to 
implement, but shall I do this when I am not sure if my code survives the 
next few months? Now I am seriously unsure how I can keep contributing to the 
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, 
Wilfried and me so that we know what's going on. Then let's have a look 
together, and decide what we should do. Apart from a lack of communication, I 
am not worried at all and I believe that with our joint efforts we can make a 
great, great program. 

Someone wrote on this list that either KDVI of KPDF has to die. I disagree. 
They will both live, as plugins to a unified document viewer that takes the 
best out of the current versions of kviewshell and kpdf. We just have to 
agree on an API.

Best,

Stefan.
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Universität zu Köln
Mathematisches Institut
Weyertal 86-90
50931  Köln / Germany

Phone: +49 (0)221 470-2890
http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~kebekus

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