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Message #01799
Re: Changing PDF viewer by default
I think Evince is not the right choice.It uses twice or even three times the amount of dependencies epdfview does. (and many are gnome ones)We should rather help epdfview.I think we should not give up on epdfview that easily.
-Glenn
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:55:59 +0200
> From: emce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 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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