Re: Xpdf fuckware
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2001, at 0 h 3, the keyboard of Hamish Moffatt
> <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > > >From a usability point of view, it should probably be a popup with a
> > > "Do it anyway" -button
> ...
> > OK, I'll investigate this option.
>
> No. xpdf is often run from the command line without X, from cron or from ht://Dig as a filter to index PDF documents. Do not make its use dependant on an X display.
>
Well, but you could implement the command-line switch anyway, because if
you give the switch then you don't have to answer the dialog... :)
Pedro "m42" Ribeiro
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