Bug 345830 - Option to set backend explicitly
Summary: Option to set backend explicitly
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.21.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2015-04-03 16:13 UTC by darklin20
Modified: 2015-04-05 16:22 UTC (History)
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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?