On 11/10/2013 5:40 AM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 15:33 +1300, Michael Hamilton wrote:
On Fri, 08 Nov 2013, John Layt wrote:
On 7 November 2013 22:12, Hans Witvliet<suse@a-domani.nl> wrote:
... B) keeping it for now is just postponing the inevitable .... Inconveniencing people now because it is inevitable that they will be inconvenienced later doesn't sound like a good policy. If a little effort can delay the pain for a while longer, then why not be helpful and do so? Or do we want to lose some users as soon as possible?
Hi Michael, Certainly not !!
But i feel two different issue's (technical and non-technical should be distinguished.
From a pure technical P.O.V., AR-9 is old, will not be maintained any longer, and could become a security issue. So it is perfectly understandable that "they" want to drop AR-9 as fast as possible. Chances that AR-10 or AR-11 will get a maintained linux version are ... slim<<<<<non-existent. Only real solution would be to get a alternative reader to perform as good as (or even better) as AR, with all required functionalities. Huge Job!
From a NON-technical P.O.V., It would have been more community friendly if current A.R was flagged as "depreciated, on the way out". (perhaps it was, never noticed). Sure we all could have expected it: I mean after the arrival of AR10 and AR11 for windows, while no new versions for linux ever materialized. That should have been a clear warning of what to come.
Seasoned users can blame nobody, certainly not the people in the project-team, only themselves. It's just a pity for people just migrated from windows towards linux. Just hope they don't need the fancy features that other readers currently lack.
So, this teaches us to appreciate everything that _is_ in the distro/addon-repo's, and take nothing for granted.
Hans
I agree with this assessment. If we we str going yo loose acoread it is only a matter of time before we also lose AR, or it will be loaded with so much crapware features and zero-days that we won't be able to trust it. I think the best course is to NOT Drive users back into the arms of Adobe, but to recruit more resources to improve Okular to at least add the most popular features. OfficeLibre can provide the editing of preexisting PDFs, leaving Okular to focus on the traditional Viewer functions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org