Adding new feature to evince

[antonio_helder2002]

Let me be very clear of what I want to do. I am using Ubuntu for almost a year. Now I want to introduce a new feature in one of its applications, Evince. Recently I was making documents from a book for my exam in Open Office 3.0 under Ubuntu 9.04. The book was an e-book in pdf (portable document format) prescribed by the university under which I am doing the degree course.
In that e-book we have a diagram which I had to include in the document. By no means could I select the diagram in evince. So I had to manually download okular. it took me almost 30 minutes to download & install the pdf reader. Then I could select the diagram & paste it in my document. What a waste of time it was for me! I had to wasted 30 minutes for just a diagram.
Now what I want to do is take up some of the features of okular and put it into evince. Can something like this be done. If yes then I would need both of their source edit & compile it to make a deb file out of it which can be installed as an update in evince.
Since I am a novice to the programming world so I need some one to guide me through the process or suggest me some book or website in which I can get this in detail.
please help me.

[cgrebeld]

I would start by looking at the evince development mailing list and asking about it there.

[oz]

I agree with cgrebeld... it would be much easier to communicate with the evince developers and make some feature requests if you don't know how to program in the features yourself. Of course you might not get all the requests granted, or they might not come as soon as you'd like unless you do them yourself.