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On 9/11/05, David Mézerette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> My intent was not to start a war about the merits of acrobat reader or
> realplayer over their open source alternatives. One of the reasons why I
> am a linux user is that I appreciate the freedom of choice for which
> applications I use, and I have been wondering for quite a while
> acroread7 and real player were just crashing at start-up.
> As for the solution to this problem, I don't think it is necessary to
> script aliases, a warning on install should probably be enough.
> 
> greetings
> 
> Damir Perisa wrote:
> 
> >Hi David,
> >
> >Le Saturday 10 September 2005 02:39, David Mézerette a écrit :
> >| I've been pointed out the following thread on archforum:
> >| http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=11551
> >| regarding problems between scim, acroread and realplayer.
> >
> >in the end this is because they come as binaries and not opensource to be
> >compiled
> >
> >there exist powerfull alternatives in opensource:
> >for pdf i use kpdf and for radio streams from net i use kmplayer (xine,
> >mplayer and gstreamer in one app)
> >
> >| maybe that should be included somewhere in the scim package.
> >
> >you mean the disabling of scim?
> >
> >  GTK_IM_MODULE=xim acroread
> >
> >?
> >
> >the only way i think this would be possible is to provide profiles script
> >with aliases in the scim pkg, that must be run at boot that does
> >something like:
> >
> >if [acroread binary exists] then do
> > alias acroread='GTK_IM_MODULE=xim acroread'
> >done
> >
> >i'm not absolutely sure if this is the best solution. for example you must
> >tell the people to add this profile script to the global profile
> >execution.
> >
> >any other ideas welcome,
> >
> >greetings,
> >Damir (pkg maintainer of scim)
> >
> >PS
> >please open a bug against this, to remind me, as i'm on semi-holidays now
> >and not spending much time with this things
> >
> >
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