Re: PDF viewers and menu shenanigans
Reply #15 –
Linux Mint team has decided to port some graphical desktop apps, such as text editor, dcument viewer, picture viewer and media player in a bundle called
X-Apps and apply these apps across all the desktop flavours that Linux Mint releases, namely Cinnamon, Mate, and Xfce. Thus there's no more Atril for Mate or menu-patched Evince and Gedit for Cinnamon, but apps called
xed (text editor),
xreader (document viewer),
xviewer (picture viewer) and
xplayer (media player based on Totem).
The main reason stated for the
X-Apps project was this: To better integrate these rather central desktop apps with Mint UI guidelines, as Gnome is increasingly breaking them. Specifically, the menubar. The common feature of all Linux Mint desktop flavours is the menubar, upheld in the guidelines. Thus far Linux Mint released Cinnamon edition with patched Gedit and Evince, now they have
xed and
xreader (the latter based on Evince) with menubars.
Now all these apps are available in Manjaro Linux too. Manjaro currently has a well-maintained Cinnamon edition which just switched to
xapps.
I think the X-Apps project idea is good, but the naming is atrocious.