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Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop



On 12-09-10 at 10:55am, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 10 septembre 2012 à 10:40 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : 
> > On my almost-only-core squeeze development chroot:
> > 
> > root@auryn:/# aptitude install --with-recommends evince-gtk
> > Need to get 46.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 123 MB will be used.
> > root@auryn:/# aptitude install --with-recommends evince
> > Need to get 76.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 211 MB will be used.
> 
> > On my almost-only-core sid development chroot:
> > 
> > root@auryn:/# aptitude install --with-recommends evince-gtk
> > Need to get 61.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 172 MB will be used.
> > root@auryn:/# aptitude install --with-recommends evince    
> > Need to get 91.9 MB of archives. After unpacking 283 MB will be used.
> 
> Between evince and evince-gtk, there are 3 differences in squeeze:
> - GConf → gone away in sid
> - GNOME keyring → it is a mere wrapper on a DBus interface
> - Nautilus → the dependency is only for the nautilus plugin itself
> 
> We could remove evince-gtk and split the Nautilus plugin in a different
> package (evince-nautilus), and you would almost not notice any
> difference.

Yes, or maybe that one dependency could be relaxed to a suggest (actual 
GNOME users would have it pulled in by other packages anyway), or I can 
simply suppress that one remaining annoying (to me) recommendation left.

I am happy that Evince no longer is bloated.

But this thread really is about naming of a tool, and my argument stand 
that it seems useful also outside a GNOME context.

You also do not call it evince vs. evince-gnome :-)

In my opinion it might make sense to use -gnome for a flavor of a 
package that has some enhancements specifically for use with GNOME, and 
-gtk when using the GTK+ widgets (i.e. optimal for use with GNOME and 
XFCE, but less so with KDE (since it uses Qt).

Yes, I am fully aware that Qt apps can look nice together with GTK+ 
apps, but some are interested not only in the looks but also resource 
use, and loading *both* GTK+ and Qt consumes more resources.


 - Jonas

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