Is there a bug on bugzilla with this info? It seems really useful!
On 09/17/2014 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, it's a pity. yes. The reality being we don't have any developer > interested in spending the time to do the support until yest. There are > two possibilities in case someone would want to work on it: > > 1) there is a new thing called Gnome Books (done by a SoC intern), based > on Gnome-Documents that can reads epubs. eventually this could be > converted into a new Widget to read Epubs, and eventually could be > integrated with evince, but this is not trivial amount of work, as most > of gnome books is done in javascript I believe. > > > 2) Mate desktop has Atril, which started as a fork of Evince 2.32. In a > SoC project for Mate, epub support was added to Atril (i believe this is > still not merged into master repository of atril). Since the libview, > libdocument and backend parts of atril are mostly the same as in Evince, > these patches could be eventually reworked so they can be added to > evince (the main difference is that atril supports gtk2 and gtk3, so > someone would need to remove all the gtk-version checks from the patches > before submitting them for inclusion in evince). > > > > Greetings > > > José > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:07 AM, shirish शिरीष <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > at bottom :- > > On 9/14/14, King White <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Starting to look like a good replacement for several viewers I use. Just > > need epub support too. Has it been thought about to include? > > Hi all, > AFAIK this is one of the most often requested feature on various IRC > rooms/channels, forums and elsewhere. The pity is it's not there > either on the Evince roadmap, nor this query has been addressed one > way or the other in the FAQ of the project page. I hate okular and > would have liked to have evince handle .epubs but as it doesn't am > left to handle .epubs with okular. > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > _______________________________________________ > evince-list mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > evince-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list > _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
