Am 31.07.2014 05:50, schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: >> okular is not a 'stinking pdf reader'. Nice try. But just like konqueror >> it is just a wrapper around kparts and is able to deal with a lot more >> files than just pdf and postscript. >> >> That is what 'modular' and 'code reuse' really means. >> >> And the opposite to what gnome does. 'oh, there is an app. Hijack it and >> gnomify it and make it dependent on 2 douzend gnome libs that all do the >> same but nobody ever cleaned up'. > You're right about the code reuse if you're running KDE, but I'd rather > not install *all* of Qt and a bunch of other crap just to view PDFs and > such. I think that's all he's arguing.
well, do you complain if you have to install *all* of gtk + gnome objects+introspection+gconf? > > I love having KDE on my desktop (and okular is really nice), but on my > laptop (i3wm) I spend the vast majority of my time in vim and on the > terminal and shouldn't have to essentially install KDE to view a PDF > when I need to check some LaTeX formatting. Just contrast with evince; I > disabled nautilus integration, and my machine only has 5 gnome packages, > 2 of which are icon sets. > > Alec > > . > how much do you have to install if you deactivate all use flags for okular? well, you still have all of qt... and kdelibs and phonon... but you would loose a lot of the other stuff. vlc support in phonon is as optional as tiff or chm in okular.
