On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 07:24, 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 found myself in the same position, so I thought I'd give evince > a go. The only problem is, there is no easy way of trying it out. > "A "yum search evince" comes back empty, for example. Since evince > doesn't even appear to be in FC3, isn't it a bit premature to be > talking about it replacing other (working, available) apps? I guess > I could probably get it from Rawhide, but should that really be > necessary? > > 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... Evince is just a rewrite of the gpdf code which most people thought was getting unwieldy to maintain. In a short period of time it surpassed the functionality of gpdf. Evince is actually being maintained and is under active development. The other packages I believe may show up in Extras. Poppler has just been announced which is a fork of the xpdf codebase into a library which both KDE and Gnome are looking to use as their pdf viewing backend which all in the long run will create a better PDF viewer. Fedora is a proving ground for new technologies. -- J5
