Re: very weird lack of .cbt support on Evince

[Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

El mar, 08-12-2009 a las 23:53 +0000, Paulo Silva escribió:
> since i knew Evince supports .cbz comicbooks i got really addicted to
> it - i can do my own presentations making a .zip of a folder having
> pictures inside, and forget 'powerpoint' existed anyway (
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#PowerPoint )

Nice to hear that !

> the problem is, recently, i found from a wikipedia page (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Archive_file ) that .cbt is
> also a comicbook format, based on libre and very well documented .tar
> format
> 
> otherwise, Evince still only supports .cbz and .cbr formats, both
> based on proprietary (even available as libre) .zip and .rar formats
> as daily user,

AFAIK, the cbr format is the most popular format followed by cbz format.
Evince also support the comics book format cb7.

>  it seems to be such a problem, but as a GNU/Linux user,
> it's weird seeing Evince not supporting .cbt format, and does so well
> on .cbz and .cbr formats (and it's wonderful it does, since they are
> very useful)

The patch is ready [1], but I want to review it to make sure it applies
flawlessly with the current master version to easier the work of the
maintainers. The basic reason for the delay is that it needs
share-mime-info support. I submitted a patch [2] for it that was applied
and published on version 0.70 [3]. This version of share-mime-info was
not supported on GNOME til the lastest development version 2.29.3 [4],
so I think we are now ready for applying the patch. 

With this stuff and your interest I hope we have the chance for
inclusion of cbt support on this development cycle :)


-- Juanjo Marín


References:
[1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588266
[2]http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/tree/NEWS
[2]https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22724
[3]http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.29.3/gnome-external-deps-2.29.3.modules