Throwing blanket assertions out there as to what is best doesn't really move this forward. Preparing a features comparison side-by-side along with a technical rationale for making a change would. Xubuntu doesn't often follow the zeitgeist. Looking at the strategy documentation will help you determine, too, whether or not this is a road Xubuntu might consider going down.
Having installed the version available on 16.04, I have not noticed any immediate benefit to this package over what we have now. A more considered case would help me understand what is to be gained. Stephen Michael Kellat > On Nov 14, 2016, at 16:08, Thanos Apostolou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Atril has epub support even if it doesn't say it in the description. It was > added after it was forked of evince. It had some problems with epub files at > the beginning, but the latest version (1.16) has been flawless for me. That > makes Atril the best document reader available on linux at the moment (as far > as gtk is concerned at least, because okular has more powerful features in my > opinion). > >> On Δευτέρα, 14 Νοεμβρίου 2016 6:49:48 Μ.Μ. EET A. C. Censi wrote: >> atril: MATE document viewer >> >> From Mate page http://mate-desktop.com/ >> >> Atril >> >> Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print >> PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS and Portable >> Document Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, it also allows >> searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, >> and table-of-contents bookmarks. Atril is a fork of Evince. >> >> A priori does not seem to be an improvement. >> >> A C Censi >> >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >>> A few comments from my point of view - inline. >>> >>> On 2016-11-14 16:51, Thanos Apostolou wrote: >>>> As far as I have understood, the desired effect is to keep the ISO as >>>> small as >>>> possible, so some people wouldn't like it to have both software (I think >>>> that >>>> the latest xubuntu release didn't even include a media player). >>> >>> Xubuntu was indeed shipped with a media player – Parole. No media manager >>> was shipped, though. >>> >>> There are reasons why we won't ship two document readers (for example); at >>> any point, the most important point is that it doesn't make sense to >>> duplicate functionality. Size is lower down the list, especially now that >>> we aren't close to any target size that we can't cross. >>> >>> So, maybe it >>>> >>>> would be better if someone of the xubuntu team could create a poll at the >>>> facebook page https://www.facebook.com/xubuntuusers/?fref=ts >>>> Since it's just a facebook page (and not a group) I think that a facebook >>>> app >>>> is needed in order to create a poll. Or maybe it's easier to create >>>> something >>>> similar at the google+ and twitter pages (I don't use them so much so I >>>> have >>>> no knowledge about it). >>> >>> I don't think a popularity poll is the right way to figure out >>> applications the Xubuntu team should ship with the ISOs. At least I'd >>> value >>> a thorough technical investigation along with a broad discussion with >>> arguments on which application is more suitable for Xubuntu more. >>> >>> That implies that discussion from the community is welcome on the subject, >>> just not in a shouting contest kind of way (which is how polls often turn >>> out). >>> >>> >>> Ultimately, the default applications are just good defaults – as mentioned >>> in the thread, it's easy to install (and uninstall) software. Now the hard >>> part is to figure out what the best application is for majority of the >>> users (or at least the biggest subgroup if no option turns out to be the >>> best for most). >>> >>> Has anybody else tried out Atril? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Pasi >>> >>> -- >>> Pasi Lallinaho (knome) › http://open.knome.fi/ >>> Xubuntu Website Lead & Council member › http://xubuntu.org/ >>> Shimmer Project co-founder › http://shimmerproject.org/ >>> Ubuntu member >>> >>> >>> -- >>> xubuntu-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
