Kubuntu-intrepid kpdf? (obsoleted? by kubuntu or kde.org??)

Hans Henry von Tresckow hvontres at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 20:24:20 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:
>
> I'm a multi-boot user. I have kde based installations of kubuntu
> sabayon & opensuse on this pc. But my Kubuntu 8.10 intrepid is my only
> kde 4.x installation. It just came to my attention that I didn't have
> my favorite pdf viewer "kpdf" installed in intrepid. So of course my
> next step was to attempt to apt-get install kpdf...
>
> But it doesn't seem to be available from the standard kubuntu
> intrepid repositories.
>
> The reason I always preferred kpdf to xpdf and/or gv is kpdf has those
> nice keyboard accessible menu:
>
> "File Edit View Go Tools Settings Help"
>
> Which let me control most of it's functions without having to wrestle
> with the {many expletives deleted} rodent pointing device. Or expecting
> me to remember a bunch of application specific keybindings that don't
> have on screen clues.
>
> This leaves me with two questions:
>
> 1) Is it that kde.org dropped kpdf from kde4, or is it the kubuntu
> team that doesn't like kdpf???
>
> 2) Given that kpdf is NOT in the intrepid repo, can anyone suggest a
> pdf viewer that is, which does use a keyboard accessible menubar?
>
> Thanks:

It looks like Okular replaced Kpdf:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPDF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okular



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