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Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?



On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:46:45 +0100
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de> wrote:

> Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> writes:
> > 2) the Debian menu requires xpm icons [2] and in fact only 4 packages
> >    have icons in the png format (ekiga, evince, gimp, gnomemeeting),
> 
> To be fair, the .png icon referenced by the evince menu file doesn't
> exist...
> 
> > 4) evince doesn't appear by default on the GNOME Applications list (it
> >    happened on three different installations).  Maybe it's not the
> >    only one, but I cannot find any others.
> 
> That is intentional, as evince is not intended to be invoked
> directly. Other applications (such as browsers, nautilus) can and will
> open files in evince when the user is trying to see a
> PDF/PS/DjVu/DVI/... file. 

That is a bogus argument. Why shouldn't I want to fire up evince when I
know I have a pdf/ps/etc file on disk I wan't to read? It has a
normal 'open'-button...

grts



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