Bug 119872

Summary:	add a cached search index
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdvi	Reporter:	Oliver Grimm <logistikka>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Oliver Grimm 2006-01-10 19:50:42 UTC

Version:           1.3.1 (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

For searching (Ctrl-F) in fairly large documents in would be very nice if there was some kind of index cache to speed up the process. It should suffice to provide indexing for the current document. Well, if you are really generous then maybe for three documents ;-) Indexing could be forced as a background thread, e.g.,if there more than ~10 pages.

Comment 1 Wilfried Huss 2006-01-10 22:28:01 UTC

Searching is already much faster in KDVI 1.4 (included in KDE 3.5).

On my computer it takes about 3 seconds to search for a nonexisting word
in a 100 page document in KDVI 1.3.1. In KDVI 1.4 the same task takes less
than 1 second.

Also I have plans to restructure the internal datastructures, which
might again speed it up a little bit.

There is already a project underway to include fulltext indexing into
KDE4 itself. If you are interested look at http://kat.mandriva.com.
I have not tried KAT myself, so I don't know how good it currently works,
but it already can index DVI files, among many other fileformats.

Comment 2 Oliver Grimm 2006-01-11 00:03:13 UTC

I just had a quick look at the KAT page. Seems promising to me. However, it rather looks like a service for global indexing that covers multiple files and even whole file systems. If it can be used to speed up the search within a single document it would solve the issue of this bug as well, of course.

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2013-09-28 13:43:30 UTC

kdvi is no longer maintained since KDE SC 4, and its functionality is replace by okular.  If the issue in this report still exists in or apply to okular in KDE SC 4.10.5 or higher, please reassign the report to okular product or create a new report against okular.