On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:45, Jaka Mocnik wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:20, Ben FrantzDale wrote: > > FYI, at one point I was told by a GGV developer that DVI support was > > planned. (Personally, I think extending GGV would be the best way to > > integrate things.) > If you were told that by me (although I "do not recollect" it, it must > have been a long time ago), then I must admit I was lying ;) Yea. I think that was you. It was a while ago, though. > There are currently no plans to integrate native dvi viewing in ggv. It > would require a substantial rewrite of ggv as it is implemented now > (along the lines of abstracting the document interface and making PS and > DVI two different backends of that one interface). If anyone is > interested in doing this, I can offer some help (actually the 1.99.x > code is much cleaner and easier to comprehend than that of 1.1.x), but I > really don't have time for it - mind you, I still haven't made the 2.0.0 > release ;>. > > On the other hand, a simpler solution is to implement gdvi as a bonobo > control (perhaps it is implemented in such a manner already, I haven't > looked at the sources) - then it would be easy to make ggv shell display > that control instead of the ggv one. And nautilus would be able to use > that control as well. That sounds like it would be good. > You are of course free to do a "dvips some.dvi -o some.ps; ggv some.ps" > to use ggv as your dvi viewer... This is what I always do. Aside from being a dirty hack, that would be an effective way to make ggv support dvis. --Ben
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