Question about developing a new XFCE app

[Gaël Bonithon]

Hi,

There are already GTK PDF viewers as has already been said in another reply, and I don't pretend to speak for the dev team as a whole, but I'm not sure adding another app to maintain to our code base is a great idea: we're already having a pretty hard time maintaining what exists.

On the other hand, there's a recent drive to develop cross-DE apps in the Xapp project [1, 2], which might be of interest to you. Perhaps MATE's viewer could serve as a basis, I don't know.

Cheers,
Gaël

[1] https://github.com/xapp-project
[2] https://matrix.to/#/#xapp:matrix.org

On Thursday, August 8th, 2024 at 10:56 AM, Apostolos Chalis <achalis at csd.auth.gr> wrote:

> Hello everybody, my name is Apostolos and I use XFCE and KDE. Around
> every six months I switch between the two and every time that I switch
> from KDE to XFCE I miss Okular (yes I am aware that I can use it on XFCE
> too but it does not feel the same due to the differences of Qt and GTK).
> I am running a university student chapter of ACM that has some capable
> young developers in it and I am thinking of proposing to them to write a
> GTK PDF viewer. I am sending this mail to ask you what is the official
> way of making a XFCE official app just like Thunar. Thank you in advance.
> 
> --
> Kind regards
> Apostolos Chalis | Scientific associate of member of AUTh
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