Re: The road to dropping xdvik

2010-01-28 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 28 January 2010 10:38, Richard Zidlicky r...@linux-m68k.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:08:25PM +, Jonathan Underwood wrote: 2010/1/27 Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com: I suspect a lot of our users will be similarly annoyed.  This is one of those kinds of tools that just

The road to dropping xdvik

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan Underwood
Dear All, We currently ship xdvik as a package separate to texlive (for a variety of reasons). Looking forward to when we ship texlive-2009, it'll be built as part of the texlive package build once more. However, even better would be to drop it entirely, for the following reasons: 1) It's a

Re: The road to dropping xdvik

2010-01-27 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 18:04 +, Jonathan Underwood wrote: However, it's not clear to me if okular and evince-dvi provide equivalent functionality that we're yet in a position to drop xdvik. Comments? If you use xdvik because other viewers don't give some particular functionality, it would

Re: The road to dropping xdvik

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jussi Lehtola on 01/27/2010 01:45 PM wrote: As a heavy LaTeX user I would be really against dropping xdvi before there is some other app that runs as fast. Evince very slow - xdvi shows pages straight away, whereas evince often displays Loading... How about profiling evince instead? perf