On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio
<fiden...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
Howdy!
I, as Enlightenment's user, feel lacking of some programs, that
consider essential for a normal user.
In the top of the list, I can say that we need of a{pdf,image} viewer.
I don't know if the most active devs prefer one program to see pdf and
one program to see image, like evince[0] and gthumb[1] (I think that
ephoto can be compared with gthumb).
Or a more generic program like Okular[3].
I'll wait for the answers and start the development (in my free time,
of course) of this software (or, at least, of the skeleton).
I answer after having read all the thread about that.
I have written epdf, eps and edvi having in mind writing a framework (a lib)
that would open a document with the corresponding library.
So exposing a module system (with eina_module) which would open a .so based
on the extension of the file, for example (if not succedding, trying all the
available modules). That is, exactly what evas does with its modules.
That is why the API of the 3 libs above are quite close (almost the same).
There is now 2 possibilities : we use them, or we write the modules based on
their code.
So before writing a document viewer, I would like such framework being
written.
Ok, Vincent. I'll do it and with advances or problems I'll ping you in
#edevelop.
I'd say do the app now, otherwise we'll end with yet another library
with an associated application to use... :-/
As Vincent said, the API is quite similar, so pick one like epdf and
do the app. Once it's okay, you can write the abstraction with similar
api and sed the code.
During the process you may find some API being "wrong" or "unhelpful",
maybe require more API and you have to change a single place. The
other approach you'd have to change 3 + 1 places. Then if you notice
it is wrong, you go and change that amount again, etc.
actually, there is something to check in epdf : is the API sufficient for
having a responsive gui like evince (a part with the rendered page and on
the left, a list of thumbnails of the pdf document which can scroll). The
rendering can take a lot of time, even if it is possible to zoom)
Vincent
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