retiring epdfview

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Thu Feb 14 16:51:28 UTC 2013


On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:42:51 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 14.02.2013, 11:59 +0100 schrieb Michal Schmidt:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > epdfview, a light-weight PDF viewer, is not maintained upstream
> > anymore. The upstream developer recommends to switch to evince-gtk
> > (a build of evince with minimal dependencies, requested in
> > BZ#906121) or zathura. I am going to retire epdfview from Fedora.
> > 
> > epdfview is used in Xfce and LXDE spins. The maintainers need to
> > decide what to do. My suggestion is to use evince-gtk once/if it
> > becomes available.
> 
> Hi Michal,
> 
> thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> I fully agree to your suggestion. I already packaged zathura, but it's
> too minimalistic (zero mouse control, only vim keybindings) for me and
> probably most other people and I decided to not submit it for review.

zathura is already packaged now. ;) But yes, I agree it's very
'minimal'. 

I look forward to evince-gtk.

kevin
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