retiring epdfview

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 12:42:51 UTC 2013


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.

Kind regards,
Christoph



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