Summer of Code

[Aaron]

On 4/16/06, Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> 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

xpdf sucks, acroread is bloated, and gs -x throws an unknown switch
error (probably not compiled with X).

i only mentioned this because i knew there was already an effort
de-gnomeify evince, not to start a pdf viewer flamewar.