Hello. I’ve just installed Kalpa for the first time a few minutes ago and I’m trying it out now.
I tried to open a PDF file and thought it was weird it opened in the browser. When I tried to open it with Okular, I was surprised to see Okular isn’t installed, nor is it available as a flatpak. This is a very minor issue, but is there any reason for that? You’d think such a basic application would come installed by default on Plasma, but I guess not.
Thank you.
You may take a look:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.okular
You may want to read the documentation…it is explained…
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Kalpa#Ways_to_Install_Applications_in_Order_of_Preference
Kalpa has an extremely minimal set of default applications as a design choice.
I guess it is worth to point out this.
(I added text format…)
I just also noticed gwenview isn’t installed by default.
I will confess: if kalpa is supposed to be an user-friendly, rolling-release atomic system, I find it very weird to choose, deliberately, not to have basic applications like an image viewer or a pdf reader out of the box (even if they were the flatpak versions).
But I guess that’s subjective and I might just be misinterpreting who this is for.
In any case, thanks for the answer.
@romariorios it’s by design, those are user applications, let the operating system do what it does, operate 
let the user do what they want in their own space.
The Web Browser is perfectly capable of opening images and PDFs, which is part of why it’s included by default.
I don’t ever actually use a dedicated image or pdf viewer, and I know I’m not the only one, and if I were to include them by default, it would create two problems:
A) Users like Me, that don’t use that software, now have software they’ve no interest in using, or need for, installed on their machine. Yes, a user can remove that software, if they wish, but I far prefer to have an Opt-In basic consent model, to an Opt-Out one.
B) If I were to choose Okular, and Gwenview, for example, I am almost guaranteed to get folks asking “why those, why not X and Y instead?” So again, I come back to the Opt-In vs Opt-Out model of doing things.
That all being said, if you’re using Krunner, and you search for a specific piece of software, by name, it will likely bring it up, assuming a flatpak is available, and you can easily install it, if it’s something that you find useful to your workflow.
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