Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

Nio Wiklund nio.wiklund at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 06:57:11 UTC 2013


On 2013-09-21 05:41, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
...
> 
> If you want to argue for something more like:
> 
>   Graphics Editor (mtpaint)
> 
> that's fine, at least it still includes the program name and so is
> distinguishable from (for example):
> 
>   Graphics Editor (gimp)
> 
> One issue I see here is that, as I currently understand it, these labels
> are in files currently installed as part of each package, so to change
> them, you would want to persuade each package maintainer to make that
> change... which is a LOT of work!  Further, if Lubuntu decides that we
> want "Function (name)", but Ubuntu decides they want "Function", guess
> which one most package maintainers will use :)  Technically, we might be
> able to maintain our own database of the menu labels we want and use
> something fix them up after installation, but that seems ugly, and prone
> to political trouble from package maintainers who could probably claim
> we are overriding their express intent...
> 
> I'd say we leave any package that has both application name and function
> in its label alone, and focus on ones that lack one of those in their
> menu label... just to shrink the scale of the task.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 

I think it would be nice to have something like this:

Document viewer (evince)
etc.

But I realize there might be obstacles along the road to get there.

Best regards
Nio



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