[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Read in SoaS with Fedora 13- use evince and 2nd USB

[Peter Robinson]

Ummm. Thomas you've actually missed the point

1) Read needs to be fixed.
2) Having to run an application from a terminal and drag things into
the journal is not a nice user experience
3) There are probably a dozen PDF readers that would work, it doesn't
mean we would want them

I understand evince is a nice reader (I use it daily on my gnome
desktop) and if it works for you that's fine but its not a replacement
for read. Read needs to be fixed and until it is we won't be shipping
anything as default.

Peter

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Thomas C Gilliard
<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> Sebastian:
>
> You missed my point:
>
> evince works.
>
> I just installed  evince i686 2.31.3-4.20100621git.fc14  on a
> soas-i386-20100623.16.iso 4GB USB
>
> su
> yum install evince
>
> It is able to easily read e-books loaded on a 2nd USB.
> This USB can be drag-drop loaded from the journal after using get e books
> application, or externally loaded to the USB on another PC.
> All one has to do is enter evince in terminal to start Program and then
> File/Open/(external 2nd USB) and select the e-book Postscript / DjVu /
> Tiff/Comic books / or PDF documents.
>
> Nice Reader Application
>
> This looks like a nice work around for a broken read application.
>
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit
>
>
> Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Thomas C Gilliard
> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>
>
> I just made a 4 GB USB with persistence from soas-i386-20100623.03.iso
> In testing:
> Read 86, it still fails to start
> log showed unable to find/open evince
>
>
> [...]
>
> Read does not work because the way it interacts with evince has
> changed on the evince side. Hence, Read would have to be adjusted for
> working again (which is a pretty critical thing, I guess). I read,
> though, that David Farning's ActivityCentral was going to provide
> incentives for people to work on that? (I'm just walking through my
> email backlog right now, so please correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
> There is a ticket on that in trac: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1900
>
>
>
> Tried to open a e-book in sugar-journal
> evince could NOT ACCESS JOURNAL.
>
>
> Yes, this is the case because evince itself is not a sugar activity.
>
> --Sebastian
>
>
>
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