Re: gnome dvi viewer

[Jaka Mocnik <jaka activetools si>]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:20, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> FYI, at one point I was told by a GGV developer that DVI support was
> planned. (Personally, I think extending GGV would be the best way to
> integrate things.)
If you were told that by me (although I "do not recollect" it, it must
have been a long time ago), then I must admit I was lying ;)

There are currently no plans to integrate native dvi viewing in ggv. It
would require a substantial rewrite of ggv as it is implemented now
(along the lines of abstracting the document interface and making PS and
DVI two different backends of that one interface). If anyone is
interested in doing this, I can offer some help (actually the 1.99.x
code is much cleaner and easier to comprehend than that of 1.1.x), but I
really don't have time for it - mind you, I still haven't made the 2.0.0
release ;>.

On the other hand, a simpler solution is to implement gdvi as a bonobo
control (perhaps it is implemented in such a manner already, I haven't
looked at the sources) - then it would be easy to make ggv shell display
that control instead of the ggv one. And nautilus would be able to use
that control as well.

You are of course free to do a "dvips some.dvi -o some.ps; ggv some.ps"
to use ggv as your dvi viewer...

regards,
	jaKa

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