Summer of Code

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:54:32 -0400, Aaron wrote:

> 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.

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/evince-gtk/
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