Hi all,

I would like to propose that BLFS remove the GNOME GPdf and GGV packages
and replace them with the GNOME evince package. Evince is a packages aimed
to replace individual document viewing packages currently used by GNOME.
Evince can display PDF, PostScript, DjVu, DVI and TIFF files (perhaps
others as well). Here is a link to Evince's home page.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

Here is a link to the NEWS file for the GNOME 2.12.0 release, where evince
is listed, and GPdf and GGV are not:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/2.12.0/NEWS

Here is my reasoning for the proposed change:

1. GPdf does not appear to be maintained any longer. There as been no
new release since 2.10.0 (March 7,2005) and GPdf is not listed in the
desktop packages referenced in the GNOME-2.12 series of packages.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/

2. GPdf was not updated to include fixes for GCC-4. This is very
un-GNOME like. Though there is a patch in the LFS repo for this, I feel
we need to move away from unmaintained packages, when there is a maintained
package to replace it.

3. Evince is significantly faster rendering PDF files than was GPdf.
To me, Evince is as fast, or faster than XPdf rendering files. Evince
is not based on XPdf code, but on the fork of XPdf, the poppler package
at http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

4. Though there was a 2.12.0 release of GGV listed
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/ggv/2.12/ , it is not mentioned in
the desktop packages referenced in the GNOME-2.12 series of packages.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/

5. Both GGV and Evince require Ghostscript, so there's no real change
in the dependencies.

6. Evince seems to be stable. I used it quite a bit to view many types
of documents, including DVI (requires a TeX installation) and DjVu files.
I could not see any problems or issues.

-- 
Randy

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