On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 14:31 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
I think we ought to keep acroread in the distro simply because it's about usability. The current suggestions:
a) download it from adobe yourself b) use something else
are not good enough. If (a) was a real solution, why are we building building a distro at all. (b) is not a solution because there is no 100% replacement for acroread.
By removing acroread, we are sacrificing critical usability because of a rule about unmaintained software. I suggest we reconsider and wait until the alternatives have caught up. Once we have a mature plug-compatible alternative, we can remove acroread.
-- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland.
I've used openSUSE as my main OS for many years now. Until this thread about the removal of acroread, I didn't even know we had Acrobad Reader available in the distribution evince has proven more than satisfactory for all of the online/semi online/offline PDF forms I've had to deal with, which coincidentally been quite a few in the last weeks. Form filling, saving, printing, all fine. I've only ever come across *one* form that worked 'better' in acroread than evince, and this was a cosmetic glitch with an informative banner that did not need to be submitted or printed, not a functional problem. So, for pure reasons of sanity, can we please stop spawning new threads about acroread? If there is anything more to be discussed on the topic, and I think that's questionable, then I would recommend the 'No more acroread?' thread. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org