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Re: Changing PDF viewer by default

 

Dnia 2010-06-20, o godz. 22:05:14
Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):

> Hi,
> 
> Maybe you already noticed it, but epdfviewer (the default pdf viewer)
> have a huge memory leak. See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epdfview/+bug/570410
> 
> It makes it quite unusable, and I don't know if it will be fixed in
> the futur.
> 
> I propose to change it. I don't know many alternatives, except evince
> and xpdf. Evince use a bit more memory, but xpdf don't have a good UI,
> and use a lot of CPU on my testing system. So, for now I'll prefer to
> use evince.
> 
> Any other ideas, and any feedbacks/comments are welcome :) It's open
> to discussion.
> 
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
> 
> 
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chromium developers are planning to add their own PDf plugin - it
means, that we don't need other app.




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