Re: Nautilus document viewer

[Paul van der Vlis <paul vandervlis nl>]

Christian Neumair schreef:
> Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2005, 13:31 +0200 schrieb Paul van der Vlis:
>
> > For my customer is viewing documents from Nautilus very important. (...)
> > This is based on the Bonobo emdeddable interface, and I am not sure this 
> > has future. Has it?
>
> The Nautilus view bonobo interface was removed in Nautilus 2.10 and
> nothing will ever replace it. It was decided that viewing documents is
> just not the file manager's job. If you're looking for a pure pdf/ps/ppt
> viewer, you should take a look at Evince [1], which does an excellent
> job at it. 
> There is just no reason to abuse the file manager as window
> manager replacement.
> Maybe you could explain why exaclty you need this functionality?

My customer is a Notary Office. Before they go to a meeting, they want 
to see quickly the important files for the case, and eventually print 
them. It can be word-processing-documents, PDFs, eventually saved 
e-mails and faxes. Every case has it's own directory.

Now they are doing this under Windows with a program called PowerDesk 
Pro. http://www.breekpunt.nl/images/art/1688/pdp6-03.png

They want to change to Linux desktops, but this is really a problem.

Evince is not usable, they will never view files like word, openoffice, 
e.g.  Further is Evince a seperate program, you need to open/close it. 
It's so great from Powerdesk or Nautilus with Bonobo that you do not 
have to open/close a program, and that everything is viewed in 1 window.

I think something like a document viewer would be great as a plugin for 
Nautilus.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.