Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-11 Thread Darren Freeman
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 07:21 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:18:55AM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote: > > If we call LyX a Qt-only app, then we could do this the KDE way and > > query the file association preferences, as used by Konqueror and others. > > Erm. How does 'Qt only

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:18:55AM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 09:48 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > Is there some way to find out what the user has installed as his or her > > default pdf reader? Obviously, this will be highly platform sensitive, > > and even desktop sens

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:18:55AM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 09:48 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > Is there some way to find out what the user has installed as his or her > > default pdf reader? Obviously, this will be highly platform sensitive, > > and even desktop sens

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Bo Peng
kpdf has a full screen presentational mode, I do all my presentations using it. I meant the automatic full screen mode set by \hypersetup{ pdfpagemode=FullScreen } Bo

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 07 June 2007 16:16:31 Darren Freeman wrote: > Wow. That's handy! So why not add it to the front of the list of tests? The only patch carried by the Fedora package does precisely that. I will wait to see how it works there before suggesting it for inclusion. FWIW this is a topic that

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Darren Freeman
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 15:22 +0100, José Matos wrote: > That exists already under a common umbrella (freedesktop.org): > http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html Wow. That's handy! So why not add it to the front of the list of tests? It doesn't solve the problem of loading the

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 07 June 2007 15:18:55 Darren Freeman wrote: > If we call LyX a Qt-only app, then we could do this the KDE way and > query the file association preferences, as used by Konqueror and others. > One day they will get Gnome and KDE integrated well enough to have one > using the preferences o

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Darren Freeman
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 09:48 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Is there some way to find out what the user has installed as his or her > default pdf reader? Obviously, this will be highly platform sensitive, > and even desktop sensitive, but it would be the most user-friendly thing > to do. If we cal

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Darren Freeman
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 09:48 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Darren Freeman wrote: > > Acroread basically won't be used any more. > As well it shouldn't. ;-) Although since Adobe created the PS/PDF standards, you could say acroread is the reference implementation :) Adobe should really be sponsoring

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Darren> That particular one would be free-software vs proprietary. But Darren> how many people would have just a proprietary viewer I Darren> wonder.. Acroread basically won't be used any more. Of course we could assume that, if people actually installed acroread, it

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Richard Heck
Darren Freeman wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:50 -0500, Bo Peng wrote: I was sitting there, in bewilderment, because my overview of all the pages on the left was missing! I tried, oh how I tried. Couldn't be anything I did since five minutes ago, could it? Hmm. Wasn't using evince before!

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Darren" == Darren Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> That particular one would be free-software vs proprietary. But Darren> how many people would have just a proprietary viewer I Darren> wonder.. Acroread basically won't be used any more. Of course we could assume that, if people

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-07 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 07 June 2007 03:50:30 Bo Peng wrote: > I had the same experience! My beamer slide suddenly does not display > in full screen and is cramped to a corner. It took me quite a while to > realize that kpdf is called instead of acroread. kpdf has a full screen presentational mode, I do all

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-06 Thread Darren Freeman
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:50 -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > I was sitting there, in bewilderment, because my overview of all the > > pages on the left was missing! I tried, oh how I tried. Couldn't be > > anything I did since five minutes ago, could it? Hmm. Wasn't using > > evince before! > > I had the

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-06 Thread Bo Peng
I was sitting there, in bewilderment, because my overview of all the pages on the left was missing! I tried, oh how I tried. Couldn't be anything I did since five minutes ago, could it? Hmm. Wasn't using evince before! I had the same experience! My beamer slide suddenly does not display in full

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-06 Thread Darren Freeman
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:29 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Richard" == Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard> I didn't change the order except for inserting evince, but I > Richard> agree. I'd do this: > > Richard> checkViewer('a Postscript previewer', ['evince', > Richa

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Richard" == Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> I didn't change the order except for inserting evince, but I Richard> agree. I'd do this: Richard> checkViewer('a Postscript previewer', ['evince', Richard> 'kghostview', 'gv', 'ghostview -swap'], Yes, but I'd propose to put k

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I know I am a bit slow, but I think gv and ghostview should be last. I didn't change the order except for inserting evince, but I agree. I'd do this: checkViewer('a Postscript previewer', ['evince', 'kghostview', 'gv', 'ghostview -swap'], rc_entry = [r''

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 15:39:03 Richard Heck wrote: >> Adds checks for the evince viewer. Order can be changed if people >> wish. OK to commit? José> OK. I know I am a bit slow, but I think gv and ghostview should be last. JMarc

Re: [PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-05 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 15:39:03 Richard Heck wrote: > Adds checks for the evince viewer. Order can be changed if people wish. > OK to commit? OK. -- José Abílio

[PATCH] 3810 --add check for evince

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Adds checks for the evince viewer. Order can be changed if people wish. OK to commit? -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ===