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

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Jeremy

Am 17.05.2016 um 23:01 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
> 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

I haven't really checked the git archive, but if what you say is true,
that nothing really has changed since over a year, I'm fine with what
you propose.

Fwiw, have you raised this upstream? Is there an upstream bug report to
either complete epub support (or rip it out again)?


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