About Evince on Windows

[Kim Wong]

Dear Sir

I am honestly on Ubuntu and then I think the document viewer is user friendly very much!

Therefore, I try to find evince and want install it on Windows environment!

As its usage easily, I installed evince on Windows 7 RC 64-bit.

Although the icons are still old school, I am impressed that Windows can use this document viewer! Just like Apple Preview!

Would you mind still update evince for Windows and keep hard for the development?

Nowadays, too less choices for a clean and comfortable viewer! Evince is the best one!

If the new version can integrate with Windows and has a nice icon design.

Most user will try it! At least the I.T. staff will test for it first!

Thank you!

Best Regards
Kim Wong

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[hib]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Kim Wong <iorikim2012@...> wrote:

> Dear Sir
> I am honestly on Ubuntu and then I think the document viewer is user
> friendly very much!
> Therefore, I try to find evince and want install it on Windows environment!
> As its usage easily, I installed evince on Windows 7 RC 64-bit.
> Although the icons are still old school, I am impressed that Windows can use
> this document viewer! Just like Apple Preview!
> Would you mind still update evince for Windows and keep hard for the
> development?
> Nowadays, too less choices for a clean and comfortable viewer! Evince is the
> best one!
> If the new version can integrate with Windows and has a nice icon design.
> Most user will try it! At least the I.T. staff will test for it first!
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best Regards
> Kim Wong
>

Hello Kim,

Thank you for your nice words on the Windows port of Evince.

It is my intention to continue to develop Evince for Windows. The
current version is only the very first release for Windows. A lot of
things can still be improved.

It is good to hear that it works well on Windows 7 64-bit. I had only
tested it on Windows XP 32-bit, so that it works on other platforms as
well is very nice.

As for better integration with Windows 7 and icon design, I think that
most of the look and feel of evince is handled by gtk+. The current
installer includes a gtk+ theme with the look and feel of Windows XP.
It might be possible to replace this theme with a Windows 7 variant,
but I do not know if such a theme is already available. Also, I do not
really know what Windows 7 looks like, I have no experience with it,
so I really have no idea how outdated the icons are. If available, it
should be fairly easy to add an other icon theme to evince that
matches Windows 7.

Kind regards,
Hib Eris
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[Kim Wong]

Dear Hib

I am happy to hear that evince will has a good future on Windows base.

As a normal user, the basic entry is just want to see a colorful icons first.

Because I am using the "Default Programs" on Windows 7 to config *.pdf files will default opening by evince.

Although all the pdf files have changed to the old school icons, I also does it since I love using the clean and fast software.

As I know that evince on ubuntu is using Adobe's icon. (Of coz not exactly one but seems Adobe).

Therefore, if just has some colorful icon first, I will more like evince and sharing this clean software for my friends.

As I see that in Program Files, evince for Windows is using the linux architecture. So I just use evince as a non-installable software. (Copy all the installed files to another path and launch it.)

This also work with Windows 7 64-bit Retail Version.

I think you do not worried about between Windows XP and Windows 7 very much.

Because as my experience on Windows 7 (From M1 until Retail Version), its comparability is quite good.

However, I will keep going to update evince if it released the new version.

Nice experience on Ubuntu with Evince and I hope to keep this experience on Windows base too!

Nice jobs for your development team!

Thank you!

Best Regards
Kim Wong

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