Re: How about a real document reader!

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

> I have several documents on my computer gathered from all over the net.
> Usually, it's sufficient for me to read them on screen instead of
> printing them out. However, in order to store them in a nice way, I have
> to print them out. What I'm missing is a nice document reader which can
> handle different file formats like .pdf, .html, .ps, .txt and even .swx
> or .doc, and can present me these file in good on-screen readable way
> like the full screen option of acroread. Furthermore, this program

Doesn't a web browser do this?  With the mozilla-bonobo plugin I can
view just about anything (expect Open Office files, yet).

> should be able to scan a whole folder and even folders in the top folder
> for documents and give me a nice way to choose one of the documents
> based on the title or so. 

Nautilus?  Enable the tree view.

> You can compare this with a picture viewer
> like gqview. Of course, one could simply open a nautilus window and
> click on the preferred picture or document. But that's not the same!

Whats different?

> I'm not a hacker, so I only can make the proposal for such an
> application and can help testing. I think something like that doesn't
> exist so far and would be rather progressiv. Anyone interested?

Nautilus can view alot of documents,  a nautilus plugin like
mozilla-bonobo is for web-browsers would be very nice.