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** Changed in: inkscape (Debian)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  print preview broken in non gnome environments (evince missing)

Status in Inkscape:
  Invalid
Status in inkscape package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in inkscape package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in inkscape package in Mandriva:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Inkscape 0.46 Linux assumes that evince is installed on the machine
  that it is running on. This causes error messages when print preview
  is attempted: "Failed to execute child process "evince" (No such file
  or directory)".

  This is a simple problem; perhaps evince could be listed as a
  dependency, or alternatively a more helpful error message could be
  displayed which would explaining the problem (many users will not know
  what "evince" is or means). It could say something like 'an external
  program is required to use the print preview function, please install
  evince'.

  Ideally inkscape would be able to use KDE components to display print
  preview, as well as Gnome ones. I don't know how easy/possible this
  would be to implement.

  This bug has been written up elsewhere, including bug #238609.
  However, it is not very well described there, and I think it is
  sufficiently important and easy to remedy that it merited a new bug
  submission (print preview is a very popular function on any graphics
  app).

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