Hello folks, Could I ask for any opinions on how best to approach adding functionality to Okular? In brief, what I want to do is use Okular as an engine for coding/tagging sections (text or rectangular) for Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA). What this means is that when a section of a document is selected, the option would be made available to code that section. The actual codes and coded sections would be dealt with through an abstraction layer so that eventually different back-ends could handle them.
Although this functionality bears some resemblance to the 'Annotations' currently available, it seems different enough to me to warrant being implemented separately. So, what it seems to me I need to do is: 1. Add an item to the pull-down menus to en-/dis-able the coding functionality. 2. Add an item to the context menu that appears when a selection has been made that would summon a coding dialog. (Perhaps some shortcuts for commonly performed actions could be directly on the menu, that's a small detail). 3. Add a new tab to the Navigation panel for visualising the coded sections in the document, and write the code for displaying that panel. 4. Extend the document rendering to indicate (via shading or such-like) the sections that have been coded. None of this seems so complicated to be beyond my powers of reverse engineering, but that might be my naivety speaking! So I thought I'd ask whether anyone had any advice for Okular development newcomers. Specifically, is there any 'correct' way to add functionality of this kind to Okular? And any other suggestions would be most appreciated. Finally if anyone is interested in where I want to take this project, I'd be more than happy to share. Thanks in advance, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
