GGV in Fedora Core 4

[taharka]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 21:41 +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Ian Burrell wrote:
> [..]
> >> What about pdf viewer ? (previouse was gpdf)
> >> Now any pdf documents aren't correctly displayed inside epiphany or
> >> firefox.
> >>
> > evince is both a Postscript and PDF viewer.  It replaces gpdf, xpdf, and ggv.
> > IMHO, it is better than all of them.
> 
> Yes .. on my system (two way athlon 2k MP with 2GB RAM and SCSI disks) 
> evinca runed without file name for display as parameter spends more than 
> 12-14s before display own window (xpdf takes less than 1s). So please 
> don't be so silly writing "it is better than all of them". IMO evince it 
> is only ass pain (not a useable application) :>
> In last few months I observe GNOME is constantly slower, more memory 
> consuming and less useable than before :>
> 
IMO you definitely have a problem there. My system is a lowly PII 250
mhz 384MB RAM and WD 80GB IDE disk. Evince run without file name for
display as parameter only takes 3s tops before display on window!!

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.