For completeness, I should also mention that it is possible to have GNOME Books fully show .djvu files also. This feature was added in GNOME Books 3.20 (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS uses GNOME Books 3.18) but it didn't actually work. I have a proposed patch at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/766781 that makes it work. The patch (or patches) for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS are fairly short since gnome-documents actually just uses Evince to display files and Evince already supported .djvu. It's just a matter of telling gnome-documents it's ok to show the file.
Why not add the .djvu feature instead of hiding GNOME Books? ==== 1. Technically, it may need a FFe anyway, depending on whether enabling a (new) basic book type is considered a new feature or a bugfix. 2. The .djvu format is fairly obscure. (Anecdotally, before working on this bug, I had never used the format.) GNOME Books still can't open the very popular .epub, .mobi, or .azw formats, and displays PDFs in the GNOME Documents viewer instead. Therefore, even with .djvu support, the average person with lots of e-books probably still won't have anything show up in GNOME Books. 3. The already-installed Evince Document Viewer opens djvu files just fine so this isn't really needed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584522 Title: [UIFe] Don't show GNOME Books by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1584522/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
