Bug 587176 – kde-misc/okular-backend-mupdf: new package

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Richard Ostrow 2016-06-26 18:25:00 UTC]

Created attachment 438912 [details]
kde-apps/okular-backend-mupdf-0.0.5.ebuild

This ebuild adds a backend for okular that actually works with large documents, allowing the user to render each page not in minutes (as with poppler), but nearly instantly. Good for viewing documents with many images. To use it:

1. Open okular
2. Navigate to Settings -> Configure Okular -> General
3. On Program Features group select "Show backend selection dialog"
4. Open any PDF and select MuPDF as the backend in the dialog box that appears
5. PDF will be rendered using MuPDF backend
6. Now you can uncheck the box -> MuPDF will be used by default instead of poppler

[Comment 1 Michael 'veremitz' Everitt 2016-07-02 14:53:11 UTC]

Any reason this can't be bumped to EAPI6?

Aside from that, think it looks ok. CC'ing KDE team for comments and potential maintainership.

[Comment 2 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2016-07-02 15:36:46 UTC]

It is unlikely that we will add more packages based on kdelibs:4.

[Comment 3 Richard Ostrow 2016-07-03 06:34:31 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Everitt (IRC: veremit) from comment #1)
> Any reason this can't be bumped to EAPI6?
> 
> Aside from that, think it looks ok. CC'ing KDE team for comments and
> potential maintainership.

Not that I see... EAPI5 was the default from the vim template when I wrote it

[Comment 4 Richard Ostrow 2016-07-03 06:36:12 UTC]

(In reply to Johannes Huber from comment #2)
> It is unlikely that we will add more packages based on kdelibs:4.

I don't see it depending on kdelibs:4...

Here's a depgraph:

 * dependency graph for kde-apps/okular-backend-mupdf-0.0.5
 `--  kde-apps/okular-backend-mupdf-0.0.5  ~amd64 
   `--  kde-apps/okular-15.12.3  (kde-apps/okular) amd64 
   `--  app-text/mupdf-1.5-r1  (app-text/mupdf) amd64 
   `--  dev-lang/mujs-0_p20160504  (dev-lang/mujs) ~amd64 
   `--  dev-util/automoc-0.9.88-r1  (dev-util/automoc) amd64 
   `--  sys-devel/make-4.1-r1  (sys-devel/make) amd64 
   `--  dev-util/cmake-3.3.1-r1  (>=dev-util/cmake-2.8.12) amd64 
   `--  dev-vcs/git-2.7.3-r1  (>=dev-vcs/git-1.8.2.1) amd64 
[ kde-apps/okular-backend-mupdf-0.0.5 stats: packages (8), max depth (1) ]

[Comment 5 Andreas Sturmlechner 2016-07-03 10:46:01 UTC]

I do find the following in CMakeLists.txt:

find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)

[Comment 6 Richard Ostrow 2016-07-03 18:51:40 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #5)
> I do find the following in CMakeLists.txt:
> 
> find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)

I stand corrected. It works against the plasma version of okular, but apparently the CMake build still depends on the KDE4 package. I still see that line in the latest git commit, so it hasn't been updated away from KDE4 yet.

Hopefully they'll migrate away from KDE4, as the current poppler-based backend is simply unusable for large image-based documents.

[Comment 7 Andreas Sturmlechner 2016-07-03 21:35:26 UTC]

There is no KF5-based version of okular in tree. If you use okular-15.12.3 or 16.04.2, that is still based on kdelibs-4.

[Comment 8 Richard Ostrow 2016-10-30 17:20:26 UTC]

Created attachment 451931 [details]
kde-apps/okular-backend-mupdf-0.0.5.ebuild

Updated version 0.0.5 to only accept ~app-text/mupdf-1.5, as version 1.8 fails to build

[Comment 9 Richard Ostrow 2016-10-30 17:22:04 UTC]

Created attachment 451933 [details]
kde-apps/okular-backend-mupdf-9999.ebuild

Another ebuild to support the master branch, which does support app-text/mupdf-1.8

[Comment 10 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-10-27 22:46:33 UTC]

I assume this is obsolete unless upstream is porting this to KF5. But I don't see any activity since April 2015.