what is "Document Viewer"?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed May 6 14:03:46 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 10:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/06/2009 09:03 AM, brian wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just looked (again!) and realise that I'd completely missed the
> > "evince" part. What the heck is an "evince", anyway?
> > 
> > (rhetorical question--I'm sure it's something like an ogg)
> 
> You could have easily looked it up.
> 
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/evince
> 
> Other than a few well recognized brands like Firefox, generally end
> users don't know or care about the application names and only the
> functionality that it offers.

I disagree. I have at least three PDF viewers installed, any of which
could legitimately call itself "Document Viewer". Until the day comes
when there is Only One True Viewer, this is going to persist, and
obscuring the real name of the app helps no-one.

Why not "Evince Document Viewer"?

poc




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