Summary: | use poppler library for kpdf | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kpdf | Reporter: | Christian Krause <chkr> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Albert Astals Cid <aacid> |
Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bradh |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Christian Krause
2006-01-03 19:10:31 UTC
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fpoppler Poppler is worse than kpdf local copy of xpdf, i'm working to fix that, but they are not that much easy to work with. Changing kpdf to use poppler right now would mean reopening some bugs, do you want that? Albert, Ok, I understand (partly). But what about all my arguments about the advantages? Nevertheless I don't understand completly what's the problem. Did the poppler people reject some of your patches? Btw, I know it sounds strange, but I really think it would be better to merge in a short time even if this means that some bugs will be reopened. But after a short time they will be closed and _all_ users of the poppler lib benefit from the patches and bug fixes. I think, that maintaining the same piece of code several times is very bad and will result in much duplicated work and effort. Especially for libs which work with arbitrary data which can come from anywhere and so security flaws are mostly critical. So I suggest the following compromise: 1. I'll reopen the bug and it will stay open until the transition is made 2. You create for each missing patch in poppler a bug entry there and put a reference link here into the bug. I think that creating bug entries for poppler and attaching patches would increase the possibility to get the patches in. 3. So everybody can track the progress of the migration. It would be nice to see that KDE and GNOME developers really could work together. ;-) Best regards, Christian I have commit access to poppler cvs, i'm working on it, only that is not top priority just because it gives me A LOT of work to convince them my patches are good for no real win. yeah yeah i can sell that benefits as i did in my aKademy presentation - http://conference2005.kde.org/slides/poppler/index.html - http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Poppler+Library+Talk - but they are theoretical really And no, you can not be serious telling a mantainer to make his app have more bugs just because you think is right. Really you are not telling me nothing new. And well, i'll leave that bug open if that makes you happy Albert: close this as WONTFIX. All significant development activity has moved from kpdf to okular. Okular uses the poppler library. |