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Perhaps there is already an internal plugin support in okular, but since I don't see the option in the menu, I think it would be something nice to have.

In particular given the strict policies about extending its functionality.

What kind of plugins are you thinking of? As far as I know, Okular already has a plugin system.

"A powerful unified viewer application for KDE with a plugin system and backends for most popular formats"
-- http://developer.kde.org/summerofcode/okular.html

Plugin based applications do not usually show it in their menus, especially when they handle things such as loading files ( Okular ) or views ( KControl4 - now System Settings )

trixl wrote:Perhaps there is already an internal plugin support in okular, but since I don't see the option in the menu, I think it would be something nice to have.

I guess that depends on what kinds of plugins you mean. If you mean plugins that make Okular capable of reading more fileformats, it's already possible - they're just called backends.

Kryten2X4B wrote:I guess that depends on what kinds of plugins you mean. If you mean plugins that make Okular capable of reading more fileformats, it's already possible - they're just called backends.

more like plugins that extend the functionality. for example the possibility to remove certain pages from a PDF file, or append several PDFs into a single one.

Or PDF comments.

trixl wrote:for example the possibility to remove certain pages from a PDF file, or append several PDFs into a single one.

If this is your goal, it will not be done, sorry.
If not, I'd be glad to hear them.

The User wrote:Or PDF comments.

This depends on the libraries Okular uses. The library we use for PDFs (called Poppler) does not support editing the annotations in a document, so Okular cannot as well.

pinotree wrote:If this is your goal, it will not be done, sorry.

that's exactly why plug-in support might be a good idea, people could develop and use the plug-ins they want, while keeping Okular's core small and Pino happy.
Otherwise it looks to me as if Okular is begging for a fork.

I'd rather see a Okular KPart that would enable me to view documents etc. in Konqueror's tabs ...but I guess this is not the right thread for it...

hook wrote:I'd rather see a Okular KPart that would enable me to view documents etc. in Konqueror's tabs ...but I guess this is not the right thread for it...

You can do that already... I even have a screenshot to prove it!

Alec wrote:You can do that already... I even have a screenshot to prove it!

Sweet :]

And I think I found the option as well. Thanks!

trixl wrote:

pinotree wrote:If this is your goal, it will not be done, sorry.

that's exactly why plug-in support might be a good idea, people could develop and use the plug-ins they want, while keeping Okular's core small and Pino happy.

The problem is not "keeping Okular's core small" nor "Pino happy" (and I can assure you Pino is happy when Okular users are happy too), but avoid overloading an application with tasks which are not simply designed for it. And, speaking from a development point of view, not much from a "ideology" point of view.

trixl wrote:Otherwise it looks to me as if Okular is begging for a fork.

Actually, it looks to me more as if people outcry for having also tetris in every application, but actually doing nothing else beside that.
Instead of taking out the "fork card" (which for sure will always make you more appealing to the other users), why don't you actually cooperate with us?

pinotree wrote:appealing to the other users), why don't you actually cooperate with us?

how? putting code where my mouth is and submitting plugin-support patches?

Btw. the idea of an integrated tetris-game in Okular is great!