Hello all i am not a gnome user and used epdfview because evince was soo gnome-dependent. however, i managed to get evince running without gnome (except of the icon theme (???)) and would like to stick to it.
first, a general compliment on speed and usage!!! second, i stumbled upon the discussion refered to in the subject, which was actually held at desktop-devel. i think that the discussion was really desktop-centric and not taking into account people like me who don't have gnome, abiword or even oo.o installed. this is why i want to put in just one remark: nowaddays, i am confronted with lots of content, especially from the internet, which is not supported natively on my fully-from-source system. however, i'd want to 'view' it too without having to compile oo.o myself. this is like with media streams. on youtube, i can see it all because the binary flash plugin from adobe works even on my ffs-system. luckily, lots of itv-channels work too. however, some would work, at least with my xine player, if not the sites were expecting a special plugin (most often mplayer or vlc). they just refuse to work otherwise and don't even provide a link to the stream. i don't like the way the mplayer plugin behaves, and for vlc i'd need wxwidgets etc. so what? i just can't see the streams though xine could play well here. so it is with evince. evince could play well in many cases where i don't need support for editing a file but still want to read it, which is not possible to me because the author did not put a link to a pdf version on his site. this is why a viewer differs from an editor in more than the terms express. the viewer is a door to the world. please consider this. if you make support for 'editable' formats (i mean, only because there is no free pdf editor, pdf is not a pure printer format.) optional, the distributor can disable them in favour to the editors and i can enable them in favour to my ffs-system. many thanks for reading, dennis heuer _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
