gpdf vs evince

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:24 +0000, Tet wrote:
>Ivan Gyurdiev writes:
>
>>Hi, I noticed gv, ggv, and gpdf were removed from FC3 in favor of
>>evince. I had never used evince before, so I had no opinion.
>
>I'm all for progress, but I'd rather see at least some overlap between
>a proposed new app, and the older apps it's intended to replace,
>if for no other reason that giving users a chance to have a side
>by side comaprison. Isn't this supposed to be a meritocracy? Let
>the best app win? Replacing working and used code with an untried
>and untested app seems a little rash...

Sure, I'm all for comparison, but I'm pretty confident that the word
'working' doesn't go very well with gpdf.

As for ggv, it's a dog for viewing PDF's and as such, I'm not sure that
'working' is a word that goes with it either.

As someone who has struggled through the PDF handling attempts made over
the years in Redhat and Fedora (and usually solved them by switching
back to xpdf) I'm thrilled about how well evince works, and the speed
with which issue are being fixed in it.  If only every other open source
project had the same sort of vitality and enthusiasm.

I know it might be frustrating seeing packages you know (and goodness
knows, might even love) being removed from the next version, but I say
good riddance and welcome to evince.


Rodd