Re: Evince as universal "Viewer"

[Thom Holwerda <slakje quicknet nl>]

> 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
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