
Kpapers: idea looks for developers!
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
"Do you have dozens of PDF files from your favorite scientific articles scattered on your harddrive? Do you also try to desperately organize them by renaming and archiving them in folders? But like the piles of printed articles on your desk, you can't keep up with all the new papers you download, and despite all your efforts it has become impossible to find that one article."
This is how the authors of the Mac software Papers introduce their software. I believe that it is important for the scientific Linux community to have a similar application. Given that I'm not able to do such a software, I propose the idea and hope that some experimented developpers would work on that!
More ideas on the website of Papers:
http://mekentosj.com/papers/
I count on you!
Charles
Diakronik
12 years ago
I'll report back in these comments when I have everything hosted (presumably Google Code, but probably a private svn repo for starters).
E-mail me if you want to contribute and/or have ideas/requests.
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rohitj
10 years ago
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pronobis
10 years ago
I have started a project like this 2 years ago and moved it quite a bit forward to the point when it was usable and contained quite a lot of features. It depends on Qt4 only. You can find it at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/armaria/
Unfortunately, I could not continue with the development due to lack of time. Still, I would be very happy if someone could join or take over the project! Of course I would also be very happy to help.
Let me know if you're interested!
Cheers,
Andrzej
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gollum
13 years ago
Just enter PDF:// and you have every PDF in the index stored in a three.
And when you click "open file" un KPDF, it defaults to "PDF://", hehe.
On the other hand, I think that Nepomuk + Strigi are about to fix this in KDE4, if I don't misunderstant.
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dalai
13 years ago
1. Jabref - Java application like kbib but also has reference grouping. It uses the bibtex file format and stores the additional info in a comment at the end.
2. Zotero - Firefox plugin. Haven't used it yet, but it can extract the reference information while browsing a page (journal databases, newspapers even amazon). Also supports tags, notes and other useful stuff. It can export to bibtex.
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aramisa
13 years ago
If there is a project to do it, I might try to collaborate!
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easyfragger
13 years ago
Two more comments:
1) From my experience in different theoretical physics departments, I can tell that most of them are running their computers with Linux/KDE, and are lacking kpapers or something similar. In this area, a good interplay with online preprint archives like http://www.arxiv.org, literature databases like http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/ and citation search engine like http://www.citebase.org/ would be great and also important to make maintaining ones local library a manageable task.
2) A somewhat related JAVA program has been created by Christian Sämann, and can be found at http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~saemann/celsius.html. For a screenshot, see http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~saemann/images/screenshot.gif. Maybe this can serve as inspiration for kpapers.
I really hope kpapers will be produced somehow!
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noteventime
13 years ago
I don't see the reason for this being an application though. Wouldn't it be better to have it integrated with okular or maybe even konqueror/dolphin?
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SMB
13 years ago
Cool app. =)
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dovidhalevi
13 years ago
Kpapers/Qpapers would search (and index!!) the pdfs in the same way, nicely threaded, and build and maintain the "library" without much ado.
JxJigsaws looks for pictures this way, as well.
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pauloerweber
13 years ago
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siyuan
13 years ago
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dalai
13 years ago
Regarding the possible start comment, it seems to me that UI-wise the Papers people got it right the first time, e.g. tabbed-browsing and pdf previews among other things. Personally I wouldn't go with the thumbnail approach of Referencer. Thumbnails are ok for photos but convey no information when you're looking for a specific paper. A list view where you can filter according to author, title, year, journal, etc. would be better.
I hope somebody starts a project in QT/KDE soon. Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with QT or KDElibs (and don't have the time to learn) but I'd like to help out where I can.
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dovidhalevi
13 years ago
The functionality of a flat(ter) library structure than having to manually go through oodles of subfolders is what I illustrate here.
An expandable listreeview (ubiquitous) would be in order with some sort of preview pane.
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dovidhalevi
13 years ago
Included is an image librarian. This will scan folders and produce a flattened menu of images (can even preview PDFs but not its strong point). Could easily be changed to PDF, RTF, etc., with more workable viewers than ImageMagick.
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dovidhalevi
13 years ago
To start, specify and outline functionality desired. Maybe C++ and its ilk are not appropriate here.
Maybe there needs be a section on kde-apps for proposals, ideas and such without cluttering program listings. The foul language serves no one.
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suslik
13 years ago
Posts like these turn this site in a pile of random indistinguishable trash.
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lolcese
13 years ago
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bandua83
13 years ago
I believe that Linux should focus on the scientific community. There's plenty of app that could help genetics and molecular biology scientist and that would attract them (me included) to use linux platforms. Paper is the kind of software that definitely would do so.
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vinokurov
13 years ago
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leinir
13 years ago
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bendie
10 years ago
It does almost all of the things described on the Papers website although this might not be visible on the first glance: It is highly configurable, you can add your own collection fields.
For example, you could add a URL field where you can drop your PDF files (or select them through a dialog) and get a clickable link to the file.
Tellico exports Bibtex and provides powerful sorting and filtering possibilities.
See
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Tellico?content=10030
It doesn't have an integrated PDF viewer, though, but clicking on a URL leading to a PDF file (local or remote) opens it up in Okular with all its niceness :-).
Maybe one could contribute some Okularpart embedding to Tellico, though.
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Llogi
13 years ago
As File-Listing, you get a list with meta-data and preview of the papers, as Bibtex the handling is comparable to JabRef and KBib.
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Llogi
13 years ago
JabRef, KBib and Co. is good for Bibtex-Coordination, but not for Papers.
Gnome has a similar Program called Referencer. Unfortunately it does not work well under KDE.
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deadman66
13 years ago
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