Re: [pdfmod] requesting your input on releases, etc

[Brett Alton <brett jr alton gmail com>]

> == Other ==
> Any opinions on proposing pdfmod for inclusion in the GNOME desktop?
> Sandy, I'd be especially interested in your input on this.
>
> Any other advice, input, or questions?

I haven't been on this mailing list for long, so please excuse my
ignorance if I raise such dialogue, but what are the possibilities of
making pdf-mod a plugin _of_ Evince?

The reason I raise this question - and raise it again as many have
asked before - is because a couple people were suggesting Evince be
merged with pdf-mod (or give pdf-mod the capabilities of Evince) while
others were pushing for pdf-mod to stay as it's own separate entity
and neither of these choices seem like a good idea to me.

The reason I don't believe this is a good idea is Evince is already a
PDF viewer. pdf-mod is a PDF editor. Why keep the two separated? To me
that feels like having OpenOffice.org or Abiword as a program to view
documents and having another program to edit them (e.g.
openoffice.org-edit or abiword-edit). It just doesn't sit well to me
to have two separate programs that are so closely related.

That being said, I do understand the obvious answer that Evince is C
and pdf-mod is C#, but I always hear programming speaking of 'hooks'
and 'plugins'. I'm not a programmer at the moment, although I am
entering Computer Science come September, but if pdf-mod could be
modified enough to be a hook or a plugin, I think it would see a much
greater chance at the prospects of inclusion in GNOME.

C# haters be damned. Real programmers know it's a great programming
language and Banshee is looking to be included in the default Ubuntu
desktop, while they hired the lead GNOME-Do developer and already
support Tomboy and F-Spot as a default. I don't think you'll have a
problem with C#, at least with Ubuntu.

Again, I'm purely a user, but what are the possibilities of that?

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Brett Alton
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