Re: Gnome DVI viewer?

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

> What benefit would a GNOME-based DVI viewer add as opposed to one that
> runs under plain X?  It would simply take a viewer that is easily to
> build under any X11 environment and raise the requirements to include
> GNOME installation.

Well, one thing: aesthetics. The Athena widget set is just plain ugly
and doesn't fit terrible well in with the rest of the desktop. And it
is counter-intuitive too, at least for anyone used to modern GUIs
(however because of xdvi's limited graphical interface, the latter
isn't really a problem).

Since Nautilus is going to be the all-round viewer, someone will
probably at some point write a component for it for viewing DVIs. That
would be the logical solution, IMHO.

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Ole Laursen 
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