The document discusses plans to create a document center application to make working with PDFs and other file types easier. It would integrate with the Evince PDF viewer and Nautilus file manager on Linux. Baidu Cloud was selected as the online storage service due to its large storage capacity and apps for various platforms. The document center would add tagging of files, uploading/downloading to Baidu Cloud, and sharing functionality.

1. Document Center
David Liang <dliang@suse.com>

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Current pain points
–Where is my PDFs
–Which one is important
–Which one am I reading
–Which one did I make notes
– Useless steps to upload to my cloud
– Useless steps to share with my friends

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Plans - Write a document center
Hack evince
– Default view: list/tag all PDFs in home dir, upload/share button
– Note/comment when reading a singal PDF
Totally new document center
– Not only PDF, but office/image/video as well
Hack Nautilus
- Good icon view already
- But: Old fashion: open dir – choosing file – open it!
New fashion: open application – choosing file – open it!
Hack qt project Okular
- Not meet my requirement
Final decision
Hack evince!

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Online service
Baidu cloud.
- Fast, large disk(1T)
- Apps in Windows/Mac/Andriod/Apple
- Linux solution: https://github.com/houtianze/bypy
Good to work already :)
Own cloud.
- good integration with GNOME
- I'm not sure if there were apps for mobile, if there were free
server which is fast and large.
Final decision
Baidu Cloud

5. Achievement

6. Main view
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7. Baidu Cloud files
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8. Done & TODO
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– Tags (read/unread/reading)
– Send to cloud (baidu cloud)
– List remote files (baidu cloud)
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– Share (API not implemented)
– Owncloud backend (Next hackweek?)

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