[debian] Evince works and is nice for ebooks

joakim at verona.se joakim at verona.se
Fri Oct 3 10:00:30 CEST 2008


"Nishit Dave" <stargazer.dave at gmail.com>
writes:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:59 PM, <joakim at verona.se> wrote:
>
>     Frederic Leroy <fredo at starox.org> writes:
>    
>     > Le Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:05:53 +0200,
>     > joakim at verona.se a écrit :
>     >
>     >> "Michele Renda" <michele.renda at gmail.com>
>     >> writes:
>     >>
>     >> > I am currently using epdf and it work well too
>     >>
>     >> The nice thing IMHO with Evince is that it supports many formats:
>     >> - djvu
>     >> - pdf
>     >> - cbz (xipped archive of images)
>     >
>     > Nice !
>     >
>     >> and some others.
>     >
>     > Does it support plucker(.pdb) files too ? I've got a lot of these.
>    
>     I'm not sure, but I dont think so.
>
> Why can't we have GUIs redesigned for mobile screens? There are many packages like epdfviewer etc. out there that just replicate the GUI used for a PC.  The menu bar takes
> up too much space.  Menus need to scroll.  The file open dialog is nearly impossible to use.
>
> The qpe file manager is also a pain, so it becomes even more difficult to have a roundabout solution.

In this particular case I think Evince does an ok job.

For me its a benefit that the same app is usable on debian/freerunner
and on my desktop. I think the challenge is somehow making "skins" for
existing apps that make them behave better on small screens.



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