Re: Proposal: "Preview" shell for EoG/gpdf/ggv

[Martin Kretzschmar <m_kretzschmar gmx net>]

Chema Celorio wrote:
> gpdf needs love and Martin has been doing good work on it. However, I
> don't think that doing a shell to share the gui with ggv is the most
> important task at this point for gpdf. I'd rather have a better pdf
> viewer that one that can share the gui with ggv and eog. 

Yes, there are many unimplemented and unpolished pdf features in gpdf
which require more work. I was a bit overwhelmed that some folks
preferred today's gpdf to ggv for pdf-viewing.

> The "general
> preview thingie like OS X has" is a different project. I think the
> discussions made it sound like this was what Martin needed to do to make
> gpdf "part of GNOME", whatever that means.

Some posts sounded like ``replace ggv with gpdf in the desktop release.'' 
That confused me. GPdf will not display PostScript files. So Jaka's ``single
shell for ggv and gpdf'' idea sounds much better to me. I still think that
that cannot be too hard. GPdf's shell and component have borrowed some code
from ggv's and some from EoG's. All use Bonobo controls. All implement
Bonobo::Zoomable. What remains? The issues Jens points out, handling pages in
ggv and gpdf (and abw?). But then, I haven't done Real Software before.

	Martin