Re: [Fwd: Re: commit: AbiWord is now a Nautilus View.]

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

> If you wish to view a document and it opens in a editor, all is well.*
> If you wish to view a document and it opens in a viewer, all is well.
> If you wish to edit a document and it opens in a editor, all is well.
> If you wish to edit a document and it opens in a viewer, you're screwed.
> 
> * The exceptions to this being non-WYSIWYG editors and very complex editors.
>   Non-WYSIWYG editors are less popular for any format as soon as a decent
>   WYSIWYG editor is available. Audio/Video editors may be very complex, but
>   their use is rare so that the default can be to play the file.

I don't totally agree:
 - most of the time, viewers are less bloated and, thus, are faster to
start. Just compare GIMP with EOG.
 - most of the time, viewer have functions that editors don't have and
that you'd miss if you opened your document in an editor. For example,
gthumb has a slide-show and GIMP doesn't.