Having a PDF viewer that is *really good* at displaying/searching/browsing/whatever a PDF is worth more to me than an application that displays multiple types of documents *ok*.
And what if that "uber-app" does *all* the functions really good?I am a proponent of having an "uber image viewer" because it greatly improves ease-of-use and consistency; as users are presented with the same interface whether they open a .jpg, .png, or .pdf. Barely anyone edits .pdf files, so I guess that that's the reasoning by Apple to integrate pdf viewing into the image viewer application.
I simply find it very annoying to be running different apps for both .pdf and .jpg/.png.etc files.
How nice would it be to get rid of those three menu entries and nicely pack them into one app? eog, gthumb and <insert pdf reader> could be replaced with a simple "Viewer". Makes more sense to me. Also note that ordinary users will not ecnounter long pdf files with only text; they'll have .doc for that. They'll mostly use it for very graphical manuals and product announcements and such.
And then looking ahead, I think Evince is the best candidate. Thom Holwerda ---Main news posting guy at http://www.expert-zone.com, bringing you the OS/Computer news that really matters