On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio
> <fiden...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
>> Howdy!
>>
>> I, as Enlightenment's user, feel lacking of some programs, that
>> consider essential for a normal user.
>> In the top of the list, I can say that we need of a{pdf,image} viewer.
>> I don't know if the most active devs prefer one program to see pdf and
>> one program to see image, like evince[0] and gthumb[1] (I think that
>> ephoto can be compared with gthumb).
>> Or a more generic program like Okular[3].
>>
>> I'll wait for the answers and start the development (in my free time,
>> of course) of this software (or, at least, of the skeleton).
>
> IMHO it's better to have 2 different, however the e17 file manager
> should be able to preview both (as I proposed in one of the past
> GSoC).
>
> The reason to have 2 application is that for documents you often focus
> on a single document for a while, with very specific actions such as
> search, annotations, bookmarks; while image you want lots of image
> previews and quickly zoom into one chosen, maybe copy files or view
> some parameters like exif (dates).
>
> These days I came back from a trip and thus lots of pictures, as usual
> I used gwenview to browse and organize them... but it could be a bit
> better and faster, so I thought of writing one; however I stopped as
> I'd generate yet-another-unfinished photo-viewer application. Then I
> remembered Enki and helping it could be the way to go as Watchwolf
> works on it as well. Particularly I dislike Enki's UI, but it does
> work nice in my tests (no tests with flickr yet), so you could discuss
> with Marina some ideas, investigate some existing software and help
> the UI.
IMHO, Enki can be a overkill.
>
> Similarly whenever I have to open Okular to read PDF I remember of
> eyesight... it was a GSoC but died as nobody maintained it and code
> was not good. EPDF should work, at least for the basics, but someone
> need to do a proper application on top of it.
>
> BR,
>
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> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> http://profusion.mobi embedded systems
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Fabiano Fidêncio
ProFUSION embedded systems
http://www.profusion.mobi
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