No inverse searches for dvi files in ubuntu - please read!

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:18:29 +0200 Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia at di.unipi.it> 
wrote:
>Il giorno sab, 04/10/2008 alle 09.00 -0400, Scott Kitterman ha scritto:
>> 
>> If it's an essential piece of functionality for you, then you should
>> stay with Hardy.
>
>I personally have solved the problem using hardy's couple of required
>packages - I will see if I can add hardy repositories with a lower
>priority. The problem is as follows:
>
>ubuntu is growing in the academia, however people currently using
>windows and miktex will not switch if they don't have inverse searches,
>and they will obviously want to use the latest release. 
>
>So to solve bug #1 we should compare features to what is available on
>windows and in this case the regression is making ubuntu lose points.

It was decided early in the development cycle that we didn't have the 
resources to deliver both a KDE 3 and KDE 4 desktop with Intrepid.  Given 
the amount of effort currently going into making KDE3 to KDE4 upgrades 
smooth and doing KDE 4 bugfixing, I think it was the only way we could have 
gone.

I understand your frustration.  There just isn't a good answer that will 
satisfy everyone for Intrepid.  If we'd stayed with KDE 3 (as Debian is 
doing for Lenny), I think even more people would have been unhappy.

Scott K