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Evince was replaced by Papers as the default Document Viewer app for the upcoming GNOME 49 (gitlab.gnome.org)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Could they stop changing stuff like this? Oh well, I gave up on GNOME years ago anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just download what you want to use? You can use the old app if you want to.
Papers is great. If you wanted the old app to stay, maybe you should've helped maintain it and do the Libadwaita port?
If you don't use Gnome anyway, which you decided to bring up for some reason, why do you care?

Feels like you just want to moan about work that other people are putting a lot of effort into and providing for free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

At least KDE is working on making their Qt apps cross-platform. Unfortunately most GNOME apps I know of receive updates for a couple years & then die off like this, and will occasionally get replaced. I think the issue partly stems from the pain points that have come with GTK+.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure if that's true. The mint team has their X-Apps project which is designed to be a cross DE GTK app initiative. Having written GTK software I also haven't found many pain points myself. Most of the problems with gnome seem to be the gnome team and not the surrounding projects.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No one’s stopping you from just downloading the app you want. They changed the default, not eliminated the option to have something elsr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Do I really have to have written "stop changing the defaults"? Like if Firefox kept changing its keyboard shortcuts would that be non-annoying as long as you can reset them? Oh yes, they DO that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

well yeah, you have to be more specific in this case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

That's true but knowing gnome they'll abandon evince development. So while you can still use evince it likely won't be maintained or bug fixed.