Re: gnome dvi viewer



On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:45, Jaka Mocnik wrote:
> 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 ;)

Yea. I think that was you. It was a while ago, though.

> 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.

That sounds like it would be good.

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

This is what I always do. Aside from being a dirty hack, that would be
an effective way to make ggv support dvis.

--Ben

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