From kde-devel Sun Jun 19 23:25:14 2005 From: Manuel Amador Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:25:14 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Unified document viewer, lack of communication Message-Id: <1119223514.16403.77.camel () master ! amauta> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=111922336409564 > KViewShell can open DVI, FAX, and DjVu-Files. > > Why does a document viewer needs to open pictures? If multipage TIFF faxes qualify as pictures (which they do) then it has to show at least TIFF images properly. > > You may know that I have contacted you about a possible collaboration a few > months ago, nothing came out of it. > > And I replyed to a post of Enrico Ros on kde-graphics-devel on the future of > KPDF with another offer to combine our efforts. No one even answerd. > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-graphics-devel/2005-February/000095.html > Some things I said in this post about KViewShell are not valid anymore. For > example we now support documents with more then one papersizes. > > So I don't understand what is different know? That Google drops some money? > > > The thing is "do the person that implements the unified shell has to use > > kpdf or kdvi as a base?" i don't know, the bounty text says to use kpdf but > > i assume that is because Zack has not used kdvi lately and has seen how > > much it has matured. > > > > Piotr Szymanski (Niedakh on irc djurban username in svn iirc) wants to > > implement that bounty, i think we should leave him decide which shell he > > prefers to work on/expand and ask his questions. > > Will he also maintain it after the bounty? > > Greetings, > Wilfried. > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << -- Manuel Amador http://www.amautacorp.com/ +593 (4) 220-7010 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<