On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 16:59, <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Release and design teams also don't want redundant apps in core, and
> there is interest in somewhat reducing the number of apps in core. We
> had been planning for several years to remove eog (obsoleted by
> gnome-photos and to remove evince with gnome-documents. Now it looks
> like gnome-photos and evince will be the winners instead. (eog is a
> very nice app, but once gnome-photos gains the ability to handle
> images, it becomes kinda redundant, right? I only hesitate due to
> nomenclature: not all images are photos. Maybe gnome-photos needs a
> rename.)
>

Removing Evince would have been slightly complicated even if Documents were
developed more heavily than it is because Evince is used for the print
preview in every GTK application, and nobody ever considered writing the
equivalent functionality for Documents in the first place.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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