Bug#824597: gnome-documents: Don't show gnome-books by default

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at linux.com
Tue May 17 21:01:41 UTC 2016


Subject: gnome-documents: Don't show gnome-books by default
Package: gnome-documents
Version: 3.20.0-2
Severity: normal

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I think the "Books" app included in GNOME is so incomplete that it
would be better to set NoDisplay=True for it.

I believe the only thing it does is view .cbr and .cbz files (usually
used for comic books) [1] but those files can be just as easily viewed
in evince "Document Viewer" or other apps available in Debian.

What I expected when I first launched "Books" was to be able to view
.epub books. Although it shows my epubs in a list, it does not
actually open the files. [2]

Besides those two commits (an initial implementation of Books and a
warning that it doesn't actually do much), no work has really been
done on making Books any more useful and it's been over a year.

I have svn commit access but I wanted to confirm with others whether
this is the right decision and to document it in case anyone
complains.

Jeremy

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-documents/commit/?id=17322bb4b627ebfef0b8c36ba22d390d0910faa6
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-documents/commit/?id=9c5cf3e98c15c17736bacda1aa2eea9458cbf4ce


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers yakkety
  APT policy: (500, 'yakkety')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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