Office/ and Utilities/ menu reorganization

Fabian Wolf Fabian.Wolf at informatik.uni-ulm.de
Mon Aug 8 16:08:59 BST 2005


On Monday 08 August 2005 16:23, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2005 15:23, Fabian Wolf wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:08, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > KDE releases include too many and non-important, or duplicate, or not
> > > best- of-its-kind applications. Maybe we can have a BOF at Akademy
> > > about criteria what to ship and how in KDE 4. Now only about changing
> > > menu layout of 3.5: ...
> >
> > There is one thing I don't get about the menus:
> >
> > PDF Viewer (KPDF)
> > PDF VIewer (Adobe Reader)
> >
> > One would think they belonged in the same submenu. However KPDF is
> > located in Graphics while Adobe Reader is in the Office submenu... does
> > not make sense to me. Actually I don't think either one of the mentioned
> > menus really fits them. Personally I would put them in some utility
> > submenu - they are just plain document viewers!
>
> As I learned recently, the Adobe Reader is much more than a plain document
> viewer (at least some guy from Adobe went to great lengths to explain that
> its much more than a plain viewer). You can for example comment PDFs, work
> with forms, use it as a presentation viewer ... 

Does that make it an office application? I used KPDF as a presentation viewer 
just recently (Ctrl+Shift+P) ;)
Now this is going to be slightly offtopic, but what I wanted to say was that 
the KPDF developers really did an awesome job! I like KPDF a whole lot better 
than acroread!

Fabian




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