Re: Bug#1098707: gnome-core: Switch from evince to papers

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:31, Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> wrote:
>Package: gnome-core
>Version: 1:47+6
>X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
>
>I propose that we switch gnome-core to depend on papers instead of
>evince for Debian Trixie.
>
>Background
>---------------
>Papers had its first release in May 2024. Papers was forked from
>Evince after the Papers developers were frustrated that they were
>unable to get their merge requests into Evince, particularly a switch
>from gtk3 to gtk4 and a partial rewrite in Rust.
>
>Since then, Evince has yet to switch to gtk4 even in its development
>branch (despite merge requests being available). Evince has had much
>less development than Papers: in number of contributors, number of
>commits, and number of new features. My strongest argument to switch
>is that Papers is better maintained.
>
>Brief Feature Comparison
>--------
>- Papers generally has the same features as Evince.
>- Papers does not support the DVI, PostScript or XPS formats. You can
>use imagemagick to convert those documents to PDF.
>- Papers does not have bookmarks support which is different from table
>of contents links for PDFs which have those. The Notes feature is
>similar to bookmarks.
>- Papers has improved Night Mode and has added digital signature
>verification. The UI is a bit confusing but you can also use Papers to
>sign PDFs if you have certificates such as those present in Spain's
>national ID cards.
>
Hi,

I tried papers for a bit, and so far it LGTM. I had some weird quirks 
where the pdf would hang, but I haven't had time to debug.
Another point to consider is papers having better linux mobile 
usability. That being said, I think this is a resonable switch.

best,

werdahias

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