Re: Proposal: "Preview" shell for EoG/gpdf/ggv

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 06:39, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hi Martin, Jaka and Jens,
> 
> So, Martin and Jaka have already posted about the idea of a single shell for
> viewing PS and PDF files using the ggv and gpdf backends.
> 
> It occured to me this afternoon that EoG worked exactly the same way - it's
> an image viewing component with a minimal shell. Wouldn't it be cool if all
> three components used the same shell for static document viewing? (It would
> work very similarly to Apple's "Preview" utility in OS X.) Other apps could
> easily install components for this shell too... Holy cow -> Bonobo in the
> real world!
> 
> Someone is going to ask the question: "Isn't Nautilus supposed to be this
> 'super shell', huh?" The only sensible answer to that, of course, is: "You
> are an idiot." But seriously, Nautilus is really not the best place to be
> viewing files. Custom file list views, sure. Weird file viewers where files
> are meant to be, no.
> 
> Martin reckons he's ready to do this kind of thing for 2.4... How about it?
> 
> Rock on!
> 
> - Jeff


I have some mockups of a generic file shell. If anyone is interested in
seeing them, I'd be happy to email them. The glade file is large enough
though where i don't want to post to the list.

dave