Bug 345830

Summary:	Option to set backend explicitly
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	darklin20
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.21.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description darklin20 2015-04-03 16:13:55 UTC

I do know there's an option to make okular ask backend whenver open a document and this is not convenient because it asks WHENEVER open a document even though I only want a specific backend.

An option to set backend to open a document would be helpful.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2015-04-03 17:18:32 UTC

Make sense, should not be that hard to code. if you have some coding experience, maybe you want to try it?

Comment 2 darklin20 2015-04-04 11:13:24 UTC

I've never worked with KDE source code.
Anyway, I've looked into source code of Okular and I noticed that it's not easy to implement this feature because a backend for a document is 'queried' by document type.
I think a checkbox list for backends to enable/disable a specific backend would be more easy to implement and also it will not cause conflicition with ChooseEngineDialog-related code by eliminating disabled backends from offer list.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2015-04-05 16:22:20 UTC

Well, why not a list of all the mime types okular can open with more than one backend and letting for each of them sort the possible backends?