Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [GNOME VFS] EOG instead of nautilus-image-viewer

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Darin,

On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 05:25, Darin Adler wrote:
> On 2/2/02 6:28 PM, "Michael Meeks" <michael ximian com> wrote:
> >> Any features in the Nautilus viewer that the EOG one does not have?
> > 
> > Not as far as I am aware.
>

> I think I'm going to start getting bug reports about Nautilus being
> unable to open images from people who have Nautilus installed but
> not EOG.

	Well - EOG is a part of the core platform - as is Nautilus, so this
shouldn't be a problem.

> I think that the Nautilus viewer has features that the EOG one does
> not, but they are ones you are not yet aware of.

	So you say; I can't authoritatively swear that that is the case - since
I can't be bothered to do a line by line review; suffice it to say that
I substantially wrote both the nautilus image-viewer [ forked from
bonobo ] - and that it's aweful code, in contrast the EOG control is far
better, more featureful - and having two versions of the same thing -
one badly cut down is not optimal.

> I think that allowing users to choose interpolation options is a bizarre
> excess feature for a simple image viewer, and will probably confuse the
> people who notice it, but few are likely to notice it.

	:-)

> I'm not sure what a "grab handle" is, but I think it's strange to have a
> extra scrolling UI in the image viewer as that doesn't work in any of the
> other Nautilus views.

	True - but it's dead useful as you can see from the plaudits.

> I think it's strange that this thread is not in the Nautilus list, because
> many of the interested people don't subscribe to the gnome-vfs list, and
> this change won't have any effect on other gnome-vfs users, despite it being
> a change in the gnome-mime-data package.

	Oh - well; I'm most happy to discuss it where you like - I understood
you agreed in principal anyway so ... I just need maintainer approval.

> But despite thinking these things, I also think it's OK to delete the
> Nautilus viewer and start using the EOG one; it's nice to have less code
> total in Gnome 2.

	Wonderful - may I commit the change to gnome-mime-data in which case ?
[ and the corresponding Nautilus removal ]

	Regards,

		Michael.

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