[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#852646: task-xfce-desktop: please recommend atril not evince

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri Jan 27 22:44:02 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 23:42 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 05:41 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Quoting Adam Borowski (kilobyte at angband.pl):
> > > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > > Version: 3.39
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > Hi!
> > > Currently, the XFCE task pulls in evince, whose interface is really out
> > > of
> > > place outside of Gnome.  It'd be far better to install atril instead
> > > (from
> > > Mate) -- it blends in with XFCE seamlessly.  It also doesn't suffer from
> > > a
> > > number of weird decisions taken by the Gnome project that make the user
> > > interface really inconsistent with XFCE components.
> > > 
> > > Atril is a fork of Evince, so base functionality is the same.
> > 
> > As usual: what's the stance of Xfce packages maintainers about this?
> 
> I'm not completely against that, we already went back and forth with evince,
> evince-gtk etc. for a long time. But while I do know and use evince, I don't
> know atril yet. I can surely try it, but I won't make a decision soon.

Also, atril seems to bring mate-desktop-common package, which is not yet
present in Xfce installations. I don't really like that (and yes, I don't
really like having too much gnome packages either)

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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