Evince alternative

[John Hupp]

I find Evince to be functional, but at least in Saucy, I agree that the 
menus are displeasing, with many items in gray text on black background, 
making them appear inactive.

And at least in its GUI, I find no way to enable a traditional menu 
bar.  (Not terribly disturbing, since other apps are migrating away from 
that, though perhaps offering it as a non-default option.)

But maybe Rafael is saying that, at least for upcoming Trusty, he has 
the existing menu items displaying nicely.

On 2/20/2014 5:16 AM, Kris Van Bruwaene wrote:
> Thank you guys for all these tips. Eric Bradshaw's tweak managed to 
> make the menus readable again, but still the traditional textual menus 
> (upper left: File/Edit/View...) are replaced by two unlabeled buttons 
> upper right, quite different from all other applications. So I decided 
> to turn to Atril (as a fork probably 99% equal to evince anyway). 
> Removing Lubuntu-desktop proved harmless, at least for now...
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 14:20, Rafael Laguna 
> <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I've already fixed the menus and they're fine now. The bug is gone. 
> And in Trusty, Evince has less buttons. We tested before other 
> solutions and Evince is not so resource-hungry, it respects image 
> standards (colour profiles, icc resampling, anti-aliasing, etc) more 
> than any other solution that, unfortunately, use "strange" UI 
> solutions (FLTK, non-GTK, etc).
>
>
> --
> Rafael Laguna
> Lubuntu Artwork Team
>
>
> 2014-02-19 11:33 GMT+01:00 Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lars.nooden at gmail.com>>:
>
>     On 19.02.2014 12:19, Kris Van Bruwaene wrote:
>     > I very much like Lubuntu and enjoy using it on several PCs at home
>     > and at work. However the PDF viewer Evince does not fit in well with
>     > the rest of LXDE. Its menu is "optimized" for Gnome3, and displays
>     > black letters on a black background :-( . So I wanted to replace it
>     > with Atril, a fork of Evince for the Mate desktop. I had to download
>     > quite some Mate stuff to get Atril working, but it's OK. Now when I
>     > want to remove Evince, I need to remove Lubuntu-desktop as well,
>     > which doesn't seem like a good idea. Or is it?
>
>     lubuntu-desktop is just a metapackage and doesn't actually contain
>     anything itself.  You should be able to remove it without affecting
>     much.  You can try a dry run with --simulate in apt-get
>
>             sudo apt-get --simulate remove evince
>
>     and that will show you what will get changed without actually
>     changing it.
>
>     Regards,
>     /Lars
>
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