On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Fabiano Fidêncio 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).
>
> I answer after having read all the thread about that.
>
> I have written epdf, eps and edvi having in mind writing a framework (a lib)
> that would open a document with the corresponding library.
>
> So exposing a module system (with eina_module) which would open a .so based
> on the extension of the file, for example (if not succedding, trying all the
> available modules). That is, exactly what evas does with its modules.
>
> That is why the API of the 3 libs above are quite close (almost the same).
> There is now 2 possibilities : we use them, or we write the modules based on
> their code.
>
> So before writing a document viewer, I would like such framework being
> written.
Ok, Vincent. I'll do it and with advances or problems I'll ping you in
#edevelop.
BR,
>
> Btw, Amitav has begun an rtf lib that can be added as module.
>
> Also other doc format can be added: txt (should be easy with textblock) and
> djvu.
>
> Vincent
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