Question about developing a new XFCE app

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2024-08-26 at 08:20 -0400, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:11:33 +0300
> Ивалин <ivalin1996 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > ? If you want a comic book viewer you should install a comic 
> > book reader, not a universal > document viewer.
> 
> Has the OP bothered to look at comix, or qcomicbook

Hi,

apostolos, the OP is interested in a viewer like Okular, but based on
GTK. For some reason the OP does not want to use Okular on Xfce.

By one email I second another subscribers recommendation and added an
additional recommendation, if a PDF viewer should be wanted for very
simple tasks.

I wrote "depending on the task that the PDF viewer is supposed to
perform, I agree that Atril is good, sometimes I also find the
lightweight and fast MuPDF excellent. However, both are not suitable for
viewing artistic desktop publishing work, as they create artifacts, e.g.
slanted smooth frame lines quickly become lines that do have small saw
tooth" and more. I gave an example, it does show Atril and MuPDF, both
suffering from artefacts.

However, KDE does promote Okular with this statement: "Multi-platform,
fast and packed with features, Okular allows you to read PDF documents,
comics and EPub books, browse images, visualize Markdown documents, and
much more." - https://okular.kde.org/

So they claim Okular can be used as a Comic book reader.

What I've written isn't an insult, it's just a joke related to the
infeasibility of Okular to show certain kind of artwork in an
appropriate way and to a reaction of the cat named Carrot, see
https://okular.kde.org/images/screenies/okular-main.png .

I don't know if the OP wants to read comics or Markdown documents and I
don't know what the OP's standard related to quality, e.g. of diagonal
line in PDFs is. At least the OP mentioned PDF.

The complete thread is available by the mailing list archive.

Regards,
Ralf