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> You have so many rounds of back and forth on collateral that it’s clear you don’t have strategic alignment and it’s spilling over into stifling execution. What does this sentence even mean? Could someone ELI5 it to me?
> You have so many rounds of back and forth on collateral that it’s clear you don’t have strategic alignment and it’s spilling over into stifling execution. What does this sentence even mean? Could someone ELI5 it to me?
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You found that you had to download too much bloat to use Okular so you made an Electron app? Im pretty sure you dont have to download all of KDE to use one of its apps, just the package manager and the libraries Okular uses.
The Electron bloat of Polar buys you much better cross-platform features than the KDE bloat of Okular. Okular is ok as long as you run only linux. In theory you could run it also on macOS or Windows, but you have to jump through the hoops. That's not optimal for a productivity application.
Okular is actually the reason I created Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Well, one of the reasons. First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows [1] Additionally, there were pretty severe bugs when I used it and there were 1-2 long outstanding bugs regarding annotations that weren't fixed…
Wow! Thanks for the self-promotion :-) Polar looks perfect for an academic environment. From a quick look the only thing missing is some kind of bibliography/doi integration.
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The Electron bloat of Polar buys you much better cross-platform features than the KDE bloat of Okular. Okular is ok as long as you run only linux. In theory you could run it also on macOS or Windows, but you have to jump through the hoops. That's not optimal for a productivity application.
What kind of cross-platform features does Electron provide that Okular does not have?
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I can't confirm if this is still the case, but a couple years ago you had a web installer for KDE on Windows and I could just deselect everything except Okular and a couple other stuff I wanted and that came out to a couple hundred MB disk space overall.
That was the windows installer for KDE 4, yes. I used to install it on every windows PC I had to use. From a quick check now it is possible to install individual applications (Okular is not there): https://community.kde.org/Windows But it's not the same thing. At the times one was able to install the while kde4. That's a cross platform app!
(I haven't tested it -- happy Okular Linux user here. It was linked from the site you linked, though.)
Okular is actually the reason I created Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Well, one of the reasons. First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows [1] Additionally, there were pretty severe bugs when I used it and there were 1-2 long outstanding bugs regarding annotations that weren't fixed…
I can't edit my comment but I screwed up and made it sound like Okular doesn't run well on Linux. It does! It runs great on Linux. I meant to say it's not really cross-platform. I just re-evaluated and I can't figure out how to download Okular for Windows/MacOS. They have a Windows + MacOS page but they don't seem to actually have downloads.
99% of the time I use evince to read PDFs though.