Re: Documents and core apps

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 17:04 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-
list wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 16:59, <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
>  
> > Release and design teams also don't want redundant apps in core,
> > and 
> > there is interest in somewhat reducing the number of apps in core.
> > We 
> > had been planning for several years to remove eog (obsoleted by 
> > gnome-photos and to remove evince with gnome-documents. Now it
> > looks 
> > like gnome-photos and evince will be the winners instead. (eog is
> > a 
> > very nice app, but once gnome-photos gains the ability to handle 
> > images, it becomes kinda redundant, right? I only hesitate due to 
> > nomenclature: not all images are photos. Maybe gnome-photos needs
> > a 
> > rename.)
>
> Removing Evince would have been slightly complicated even if
> Documents were developed more heavily than it is because Evince is
> used for the print preview in every GTK application, and nobody ever
> considered writing the equivalent functionality for Documents in the
> first place.

Nobody added the ability for gnome-documents to open files...

I'll probably split off Books at some point in the future.