Image viewer applications
Allan Day
allanpday at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 14:58:46 UTC 2014
Donald Buchan <malak at pobox.com> wrote:
...
>> The plan, I think, is to extend Nautilus's preview functionality to
>> the point where standalone viewing apps (eog, evince) are no longer
>> required in the default install. However, while there is the
>> possibility of this happening at some point in the future, we don't
>> have a clear time frame for when it might land. It might not happen in
>> time for F22, in other words.
> ... The real question here is, "assuming
> that evince will be dropped from the default install, will there be a PDF
> 'display' (or whatever you want to call it) program installed by default?"
Of course. The idea is that Nautilus would provide this facility as a
core part of its functionality, in the same way that browsers
typically incorporate a PDF viewer nowadays.
Allan
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