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> okular is not a 'stinking pdf reader'. Nice try. But just like konqueror |
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> it is just a wrapper around kparts and is able to deal with a lot more |
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> files than just pdf and postscript. |
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> That is what 'modular' and 'code reuse' really means. |
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> And the opposite to what gnome does. 'oh, there is an app. Hijack it and |
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> gnomify it and make it dependent on 2 douzend gnome libs that all do the |
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> same but nobody ever cleaned up'. |
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You're right about the code reuse if you're running KDE, but I'd rather |
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not install *all* of Qt and a bunch of other crap just to view PDFs and |
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such. I think that's all he's arguing. |
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I love having KDE on my desktop (and okular is really nice), but on my |
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laptop (i3wm) I spend the vast majority of my time in vim and on the |
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terminal and shouldn't have to essentially install KDE to view a PDF |
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when I need to check some LaTeX formatting. Just contrast with evince; I |
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disabled nautilus integration, and my machine only has 5 gnome packages, |
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2 of which are icon sets. |
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Alec |
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