Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> - Is gnome-documents going to get similar support for opening PDFs/etc.
The plan, I think, is to extend Nautilus's preview functionality to
the point where standalone viewing apps (eog, evince) are no longer
required in the default install. However, while there is the
possibility of this happening at some point in the future, we don't
have a clear time frame for when it might land. It might not happen in
time for F22, in other words.
Put aside the distinction in the mind of the "common user" (ie. myself)
between a "viewer" that does this but not that, and just something that
lets me "open" up the file, let alone the timeline issues, what is the
plan for PDF displaying a PDF on my screen?
I've been using evince for a long time, and find it emminently adequate
for the job of opening, reading and printing PDFs, which I do quite
frequently to the point of daily. The real question here is, "assuming
that evince will be dropped from the default install, will there be a PDF
'display' (or whatever you want to call it) program installed by default?"
Please pardon what some will think along the lines of "well duh, he can
just used such-and-such package which is already installed by default, or
just install evince from the repositories, and anyway there are plenty of
other software packages out there which can "display" PDFs -- such as
LibreOffice, The Gimp, etc.." Yes, I *do* know how to do "yum install
evince".