Summer of Code

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Sun Apr 16 21:45:46 CEST 2006


Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Aaron wrote:
> 
>> also @ sofar, i think a file manager, media player, and cd burner are
>> awful high end for a simple DE. i just thought someone could poke
>> around and fix it up. all it needs is the gnome deps removed, and
>> youll have the eternal gratitude of anyone who uses pdfs without
>> gnome.
> 
> Nah, really, the goal is not to fork gnome without the gnome libs... 
> That wouldn't make mush sense IMHO.
> 
> The goal of xfce has never been to reinvent the wheel (even if xfce is 
> older than gnome)

yup, and there always is:

xpdf
acroread
gs -x

all can display pdf's, without gnome libs too.

Auke



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