On Saturday 23 May 2009 16:07:36 Pino Toscano wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > > I recently discovered that Okular can create annotations which are then > > stored in an XML file. I immediately thought: "Why not store them in > > Nepomuk?". > > Just a bit of background note: the internal XML are not just "annotation > storage", but contain any local (meta)data associated with a document. > These include last 10 history steps, last zoom level, locally created > annotations, changed values of form fields (if any). > > > So here is the question: what are your thoughts on this? IMHO Nepomuk is > > perfect since it is intended for annotations and it would allow you to > > even link pdfs (and the like) to other documents and persons and so on. > > > > I could see Okular storing the annotations both in Nepomuk and the XML > > file for now so we can test it a bit. > > I'm not opposing to the idea, but I'm not conviced either that would be a > good solution. Some (most?) people expect to be able to save and share the > annotations with friend/boss/collegue/fiance(e)/etc. We provide a share > mode for them (even if Okular-specific, but there isn't a better solution > so far).
actually after looking into it a bit more I am not that sure anymore myself. However, I think it would be a good idea to at least mirror them in Nepomuk or provide a strigi extractor maybe. Otherwise the desktop search will not pick them up which might confuse users. Cheers, Sebastian _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel