- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] some more desktop-compliance and some less old stuff
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:45:57 +0200
Hi Dennis,
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Dennis Heuer wrote:
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texmacs looks quite usable to me, and i like powerful tools. i've also
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read about your work on re-organizing things and look forward for that.
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however, some things seem to be not on the list.
The list is somewhat outdated itself...
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for example, texmacs
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could make use of fontconfig to find other fonts than the common tex
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fonts. it also tries to provide default fonts not installed on my
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system, like some X fonts. a more "common" and dynamic support for
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fonts would be very appreceated.
Yes, we are aware of this.
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this is also true for some other features like remembering the last
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position and geometry of the window or using the same gtk-theme as
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the desktop, etc (including same font, gtkfilechooser, and the new gtk+
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printer configuration). a .desktop file would be nice too.
Yes.
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there are also several %MYDOCS% directories on my filesystem that i
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don't find appropriate there.
Which ones?
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freedesktop.org has defined special folders for such and other cases,
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like .config or .cache in the home directory.
These things change all the time. Let's wait a bit...
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texmacs also seems to use some old tools that i don't really know of why
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they are used. i don't have xmodmap or locatedb for personal choice.
These have indeed to be removed.
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interestingly, my system also misses pdf2* for whatever reasons.
Support of converters is another thing which changes all the time.
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but i found out that poppler (the new pdf library at freedesktop.org, based
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on cairo and used in evince, epdfview, etc.) brings similar tools with
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it, like pdftohtml, pdftops, pdftoabw, pdftoppm, and pdftotext. possibly
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you want to support these tools.
This is easy to fix: if you have propositions for missing (image) converters,
then send a patch for the file
progs/convert/images/init-images.scm
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nevertheless, that i write this all to you shows that the overall
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texmacs appearance has pleased my eyes much more than abiword :)
Thanks, Joris
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