On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 07:24, Tet wrote:
Ivan Gyurdiev writes:
>Hi, I noticed gv, ggv, and gpdf were removed from FC3 in favor of
>evince. I had never used evince before, so I had no opinion.
I found myself in the same position, so I thought I'd give evince
a go. The only problem is, there is no easy way of trying it out.
"A "yum search evince" comes back empty, for example. Since evince
doesn't even appear to be in FC3, isn't it a bit premature to be
talking about it replacing other (working, available) apps? I guess
I could probably get it from Rawhide, but should that really be
necessary?
I'm all for progress, but I'd rather see at least some overlap between
a proposed new app, and the older apps it's intended to replace,
if for no other reason that giving users a chance to have a side
by side comaprison. Isn't this supposed to be a meritocracy? Let
the best app win? Replacing working and used code with an untried
and untested app seems a little rash...
Evince is just a rewrite of the gpdf code which most people thought was
getting unwieldy to maintain. In a short period of time it surpassed
the functionality of gpdf. Evince is actually being maintained and is
under active development. The other packages I believe may show up in
Extras. Poppler has just been announced which is a fork of the xpdf
codebase into a library which both KDE and Gnome are looking to use as
their pdf viewing backend which all in the long run will create a better
PDF viewer. Fedora is a proving ground for new technologies.
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J5